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Richard Nixon was one of the dominate figures in the second half of the twentieth century. His emergence from obscurity to become a prominent politician and the moderate leader of the Republican Party is a rags to riches story. Yet his ability to keep in check a questionable personality led eventually to paranoia and poor choices. Becoming the first President to resign from office, Richard Nixon led America during some of its worse days in the late 60s and early 70s. His ability to reemerge as an elder statesman was amazingly complex. Join Keith Pruitt as the historian introduces you to the world of Richard Nixon.

Help students see the world around them using photography. In this book, Keith Pruitt asks students to look for specific things in the picture. Can You See is a means to helping students examine closer and is a great story starter.

The meteoric rise of James K. Polk through the ranks of Tennessee politics was due in part to the tutelage of Andrew Jackson. Old Hickory saw in the young Polk a protege cut from the same frontier cloth as himself with a determination and focus held by few others. Born in North Carolina, his parents came to Tennessee when it was but a wild frontier land. Polks grit and determination to excel moved him quickly from his education in Murfreesboro to teh halls of power in Nashville and on to Washington, D.C. When the party deadlocked on a candidate for President in 1844, they looked to former Speaker of the House Polk as a "dark horse" candidate. Polk faced an uphill battle against the Whig candidate Henry Clay. The election was close with but 39,000 votes seperating them in the popular vote. Polk had promised he would serve but one term and he determined to make a mark with his four point platform. Polk retired to his Nashville home in 1849 a broken and ailing man. He died but three months after his retirement from office. His body was buried in the front yard of Polk Place but would be removed to the state capital grounds where it presently sits atop the hill overlooking the city.

What if dogs meowed and cats barked? What if trees grew upside down? Oh, the things we can learn when we asked What If? Children will love the original photography and whimsical questions as author Keith Pruitt sets the stage for a great deal of concept learning and language development. And best of all, the children will have fun while they learn.

The United States has two main political parties. But through the years, there have been many others, and the Democratic and Republican Parties have changed tremendously since their beginnings. In this book, historian Keith Pruitt will describe the history of political parties over our near 250 years of history. Along the way, there will be quotes from politicians and specific information about how the parties delivered various leaders on the national stage. Complete with recommended reading and indexed, this treatise is intended to be an introduction to political activism in America.

At the heart of the Republican MAGA right is the rhetoric about immigration. In this historical and spiritual examination of immigration, historian Keith Pruitt looks at the history of immigration in the United States. But Pruitt goes further by examining the spiritual teachings in Jewish/Christian scriptures regarding our relationship with others especially those the Bible refers to as "strangers" in the land. The obvious implication is that those who seem the most vocal about getting rid of foreign immigrants, illegal aliens, or however one wishes to designate these humans who have come to our shores, are also those who seem more bent on enforcing their view of religion. Yet, as Pruitt points out, these anti immigrant rants are in clear opposition to plain biblical teachings. In the third chapter, the author then uses a series of historic quotes to show a representation of beliefs on immigrant throughout American history. This book coupled with his prior two books on Christian Nationalism and American Political Parties offer a trifecta in American history studies.