Author: Rutherford B. HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: 1881-1893
Author: Rutherford B. HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: 1834-1860
Author: Rutherford B. HayesDiary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: 1881-1893
Author: Rutherford Birchard HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: 1891-1892
Author: Rutherford B. HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Nineteenth President of the United States: 1891-1892
Author: Rutherford B. HayesDiary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes...
Author: Rutherford B. Hayes
Author: Ari Arthur HoogenboomPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
He has also been criticized for championing the gold standard, for breaking the Great Strike of 1877, for inconsistent support of civil-service reform, and for being an ineffectual politician. Hoogenboom contends that these evaluations are largely false. Previous scholars, he says, have failed to appreciate Hayes's limited options and have misrepresented his actions in their depictions of an overly cautious, nonvisionary president. In fact, he was strikingly modern in his efforts to enlarge the power of the office, which he used as his own bully pulpit to rouse public support for his goals. Chief among these goals, Hoogenboom shows, was equality for all Americans. Throughout his presidency and long afterwards, Hayes worked steadfastly for reforms that would encourage economic opportunity, distribute wealth more equitably, diminish the conflict between capital and labor, and ultimately enable African-Americans to achieve political equality.
Rutherford B. Hayes
Author: Hans TrefoussePublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805069089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Trefousse points out, it was this decision that helped unify the country and restore legitimacy to the Oval Office.".
Benjamin Harrison
Author: Charles William CalhounPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805069525
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
With dazzling attention to this president's life, the social tapestry of his times, and the political dynasty he was born to which ushered in big government, Calhoun compellingly reconsiders Harrison's legacy.
Andrew Johnson
Author: Annette Gordon-ReedPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429924616
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from office Andrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office. Johnson faced a nearly impossible task—to succeed America's greatest chief executive, to bind the nation's wounds after the Civil War, and to work with a Congress controlled by the so-called Radical Republicans. Annette Gordon-Reed, one of America's leading historians of slavery, shows how ill-suited Johnson was for this daunting task. His vision of reconciliation abandoned the millions of former slaves (for whom he felt undisguised contempt) and antagonized congressional leaders, who tried to limit his powers and eventually impeached him. The climax of Johnson's presidency was his trial in the Senate and his acquittal by a single vote, which Gordon-Reed recounts with drama and palpable tension. Despite his victory, Johnson's term in office was a crucial missed opportunity; he failed the country at a pivotal moment, leaving America with problems that we are still trying to solve.