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: Bonnie Calhoun Название: Pieces of the Heart ISBN: 1426752725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781426752728 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1470.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cordelia Grace watched Bernard Howard, the love of her young life, go off to fight for our country in WWII. And she has spent the last three years creating the Pine Cone quilt that will grace their marriage bed when he comes home. Each row of triangles signifies a layer in her life, sets of memories, hopes, dreams, and prayers for her future, enough spoken words to cover them forever. Her image of their "happy-ever-after" grows proportionally as the quilt expands.But is the man that returns from the war, the same man that she remembered? Are the dark shades of color that she had to use for the outside edges of the beloved quilt prophetic of her life to come? Can love and faith overcome all?
Автор: Calhoun, Alison Название: Montaigne and the lives of the philosophers ISBN: 1611495539 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611495539 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 8659.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book rethinks Montaigne`s philosophical thought in terms of transversality by investigating the essayist`s debt to ancient life writers Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch. Its scope is of interest to scholars of ancient and early modern life writing, ancient and early modern philosophy, as well as scholars of early modern literary history.
Автор: Calhoun Scott D. Название: U2 Above, Across, and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Assessments ISBN: 1498501311 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498501316 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 13332.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers new essays from interdisciplinary perspectives on U2`s career-long dynamic of resisting conventional boundaries in order to erase barriers that inhibit growth, understanding, and progress.
Автор: Calhoun, Laurie Название: War and delusion ISBN: 1349451541 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349451548 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9083.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Calhoun examines the centuries-old paradigm of just war theory to determine whether modern `just war` rationalizations constitute sound justifications or pro-military propaganda. Her work reveals how the practice of modern war contradicts the most basic values and principles of modern Western democracies.
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