Political Writings or The Raising of a President

Political Writings: John Locke

Author: John Lock

John Locke№s Second Treatise of Government (c. 1681) is perhaps the key founding liberal text. A Letter Concerning Toleration, written in 1685 ( a year when a Catholic monarch came to the throne of England and Louis XIV unleashed a reign of terror against Protestants in France), is a classic defense of religious freedom. Yet many of Locke№s other writings‹not least the Constitutions of Carolina, which he helped draft‹are almost defiantly anti-liberal in outlook.

This comprehensive collection brings together the main published works (excluding polemical attacks on other people№s views) with the most important surviving evidence from among Locke№s papers relating to his political philosophy. David Wootton№s wide-ranging and scholarly Introduction sets the writings in the context of their time, examines Locke№s developing ideas and unorthodox Christianity, and analyzes his main arguments. The result is the first fully rounded picture of Locke№s political thought in his own words.

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The Raising of a President: The Mothers and Fathers of Our Nation's Leaders

Author: Doug Wead

Our greatest presidents have entered the Oval Office armed with overwhelming ambition, intellect, and ideals. But were these characteristics evident in youth? What are the family circumstances that have created our presidents? How did their upbringing shape their future -- and ours?

In The Raising of a President, bestselling author Doug Wead goes where no presidential biographer has gone before: straight to the childhood homes of America's greatest leaders. Wead analyzes the types of families in which they were reared, and offers fascinating psychological profiles based on his findings. Using presidential letters and personal correspondence -- as well as notes from his own private conversations with six presidential families -- Wead brilliantly portrays the early lives, loves, and political awakenings of George Washington; John Adams and the rest of America's first dynasty; Lincoln, who never betrayed his humble roots; Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, each raised in prominent political households; and the once and future commanders in chief Bush.

More than just political biography, The Raising of a President sheds new light on America's presidents, who were not only born but made.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	Founding fathers and mothers
1	How the presidents' parents shaped their sons and influenced the nation	3
2	A magnificent obsession : George Washington's parents	22
3	John Adams and the first American dynasty	40
4	Sacrificed on the American altar	56
5	A private grief	78
Pt. 2	The enigmatic rise of Abraham Lincoln
6	Forgged in a crucible : Abraham Lincoln and his father	95
7	Nancy Hanks : a mother of mystery	108
8	A wonderful stepmother : lessons in love	124
Pt. 3	The Roosevelts : America's greatest family
9	James Roosevelt : an American aristocrat	137
10	Sara Roosevelt : a formidable presence	156
11	FDR's break with mother	178
Pt. 4	The Kennedys : ambition unleashed
12	The ruthless ascent of Joseph P. Kennedy	197
13	Survivor : the mother of John F. Kennedy	219
14	The rise of Camelot	230
15	Shattered dreams	243
Pt. 5	The Bushes : the quiet dynasty
16	About his father's business : Prescott Bush	259
17	George and Barbara Bush : raising a president	278
18	George W. Bush : the warrior president	295
	Epilogue : a president in the family : how it happens	313
	A chronological list of the presidents' parents	321
App. A	The presidents' ancestry and background	421
App. B	Professions of the presidents' parents	423
App. C	Presidents' birth order	425
App. D	Ages of presidents at the death of their parents	427
App. E	Deaths of children and siblings of presidents	430
App. F	Death of parents before and after presidents	435
App. G	Parents who lived to see the inaugurations of their sons	437
App. H	Fathers of presidents who remarried	440