The The 28 Toughest Presidential Decisions And How They Changed History

Craughwell has highlighted approximately thirty ground-breaking presidential decisions that are of particular importance in U.S. history and often, the history of the world. From well-known but fascinating stories like the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which doubled the U.S. territory, to the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, to less obvious but still important decisions like the GI bill, which sent millions of Americans to college who would not have gone otherwise, and Nixon's decision to go to China, which opened communication lines with a communist nation for the first time.