Author: Annah Robinson WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 9
Book Description
Zachary Taylor, his home and family
Author: Annah Robinson WatsonZachary Taylor
Author: John S. D. EisenhowerPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429997419
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation's highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California's admission—despite being a slaveholder himself—but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.
Family of Zachary Taylor President, United States
Author: Kathleen WatersZachary Taylor
Author: K. Jack BauerPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807118511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor “was and remains an enigma.” He was a southerner who espoused many antisouthern causes, an aristocrat with a strong feeling for the common man, an energetic yet cautious and conservative soldier. Not an intellectual, Taylor showed little curiosity about the world around him. In this biography—the most comprehensive since Holman Hamilton’s two-volume work published forty years ago—Bauer offers a fresh appraisal of Taylor’s life and suggests that Taylor may have been neither so simple nor so nonpolitical as many historians have believed. Taylor’s sixteen months as president were marked by disputes over California statehood and the Texas–New Mexico boundary. Taylor vehemently opposed slavery extension and threatened to hang those southern hotheads who favored violence and secession as a means to protect their interests. He died just as he had begun a reorganization of his administration and a recasting of the Whig party. Balanced and judicious, forthright and unreverential, and based on thoroughgoing research, this book will be for many years the standard biography of Zachary Taylor.
Zachary Taylor to Robert C. Wood Regarding Taylor's Family, 3 August 1847
Author: Zachary TaylorPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Health and safety concerns about his wife, Ann, and children, moving to a healthier place, his public image and possible presidency [1848]. If elected president, he will serve Honestly and faithfully in accordance with the provisions of the constitution.
True Stories of Our Presidents
Author: Charles MorrisPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519480279
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
True Stories of Our Presidents is a collection of short histories of our presidents, written for a high school audience.
Our White House
Author: National Children's Book and Literacy AlliancePublisher: Candlewick
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A collection from over a hundred authors and illustrators to portray over two hundred years of history as seen through the White House windows.
Lippincott's Monthly Magazine
Author: Zachary Taylor
Author: Jeremy RobertsPublisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 9780822513971
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the United States president who was nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready" because of his perfect army record.
How to Draw the Life and Times of Zachary Taylor
Author: Roderic D. SchmidtPublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404229891
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Introduction to the life, times, and key achievements of Zachary Taylor while including step-by-step illustrations with easy to follow directions that allow the reader to draw what they are learning.