Author: Henry F. Graff Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429998008 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 180
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A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms. Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college in 1892 -- Cleveland was unique in the line of nineteenth-century Chief Executives. In this book, presidential historian Henry F. Graff revives Cleveland's fame, explaining how he fought to restore stature to the office in the wake of several weak administrations. Within these pages are the elements of a rags-to-riches story as well as an account of the political world that created American leaders before the advent of modern media.
Author: Abraham Lincoln Publisher: Bantam ISBN: 0553807420 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 208
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A collection of writings includes images of a variety of handwritten speeches, letters, and childhood notebooks, accompanied by commentary by James M. McPherson, Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin, John Updike, Toni Morrison, and other notables.
Author: H. P. Jeffers Publisher: Harper Perennial ISBN: 9780380805716 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 400
Book Description
A biography of the only president to be elected to non-consecutive terms reveals a tough, honest, courageous leader who took responsibility for his actions and wasn't afraid to take on corruption where he saw it.
Author: Publisher: Applewood Books ISBN: 1557095353 Category : Presidents Languages : en Pages : 189
Book Description
An updated edition of the second volume of Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. Volume Two contains the speeches of Grover Cleveland (1885) through George W. Bush (2001).
Author: Matthew Algeo Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1569768765 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 273
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An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched expose. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend's yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president's palate along with much of his upper jaw. When an enterprising reporter named E. J. Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied it and Edwards was consequently dismissed as a disgrace to journalism. Twenty-four years later, one of the president's doctors finally revealed the incredible truth, but many Americans simply would not believe it. After all, Grover Cleveland's political career was built upon honesty--his most memorable quote was "Tell the truth"--so it was nearly impossible to believe he was involved in such a brazen cover-up. This is the first full account of the disappearance of Grover Cleveland during that summer more than a century ago.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Government publications Languages : en Pages : 368
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This collection of the inaugural addresses of the Presidents of the United States was published in commemoration of the Bicentennial Presidential Inauguration that was observed on January 20, 1989. These addresses, in which the Presidents articulate their hopes and dreams for the nation, chronicle the course the United States from its earliest days to the present. Each address is preceded by a brief note with information on the date, location, the party affiliation, details of the election, other circumstances, such as death or resignation of the predecessor, and the administration of the oath of office. S/N 052-071-00879-9: $16.00 (For use only in the library).
Author: Michael J. Gerhardt Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199967792 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 336
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In The Constitutional Legacy of Forgotten Presidents, eminent constitutional scholar Michael Gerhardt tells the stories of thirteen presidents whom most Americans do not remember and scholars think had no constitutional impact, among them Chester Arthur, Martin Van Buren, and William Howard Taft. As Gerhardt shows, our forgotten presidents played crucial roles in laying some of the groundwork followed by Lincoln and other modern presidents, as well as providing examples for future lawmakers of constitutional choices to avoid.
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