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: Standley William Harrison, Ageton Arthur Ainsley Название: Admiral Ambassador to Russia ISBN: 1258386135 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258386139 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8819.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Cole Grenville Arthur James Название: AIDS in Practical Geology ... with ... Illustrations. ISBN: 1240918488 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781240918485 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5141.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Title: Open-Air Studies. An introduction to geology out-of-doors ... With ... illustrations, etc.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
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The GEOLOGY collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The works in this collection contain a number of maps, charts, and tables from the 16th to the 19th centuries documenting geological features of the natural world. Also contained are textbooks and early scientific studies that catalogue and chronicle the human stance toward water and land use. Readers will further enjoy early historical maps of rivers and shorelines demonstrating the artistry of journeymen, cartographers, and illustrators.
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British Library Cole, Grenville Arthur James; 1895. xii. 322 p.; 8 . 7106.ff.28.
Автор: Harrison Arthur Elliot Название: Klystron Tubes ISBN: 1258579588 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781258579586 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 6060.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Cole Grenville Arthur James Название: AIDS in Practical Geology ... with ... Illustrations. ISBN: 1241507112 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781241507114 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 5207.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
