The scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big government
Politics was in Benjamin Harrison's blood. His great-grandfather signed the Declaration and his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president of the United States. Harrison, a leading Indiana lawyer, became a Republican Party champion, even taking a leave from the Civil War to campaign for Lincoln. After a scandal-free term in the Senate-no small feat in the Gilded Age-the Republicans chose Harrison as their presidential candidate in 1888. Despite losing the popular vote, he trounced the incumbent, Grover Cleveland, in the electoral college.
In contrast to standard histories, which dismiss Harrison's presidency as corrupt and inactive, Charles W. Calhoun sweeps away the stereotypes of the age to reveal the accomplishments of our twenty-third president. With Congress under Republican control, he exemplified the activist president, working feverishly to put the Party's planks into law and approving the first billion-dollar peacetime budget. But the Democrats won Congress in 1890, stalling his legislative agenda, and with the First Lady ill, his race for reelection proceeded quietly. (She died just before the election.) In the end, Harrison could not beat Cleveland in their unprecedented rematch.
With dazzling attention to this president's life and the social tapestry of his times, Calhoun compellingly reconsiders Harrison's legacy.
Автор: Hopkinson, Deborah And Harrison, Nancy Название: Who Was Charles Darwin? ISBN: 0448437643 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780448437644 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 551.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An introduction to the life and accomplishments of the nineteenth-century British naturalist Charles Darwin.
Описание: Full Title: The Trials of Charles The First, and of Some of The Regicides: With Biographics of Bradshaw, Ireton, Harrison, and Others. And With Notes
Description: The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial.Trials provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.
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Monograph Fifth
New York City Bar London: John Murray, Albemarle Street; and Sold by Thomas Tegg, 73, Cheapside. 1845
Автор: Charles Harrison Название: Coming of the Hour (Second Edition) ISBN: 099030793X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780990307938 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3492.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
