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Author: Peter A. Wallner
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this second volume of Wallner's Pierce biography, President Pierce faces unscrupulous and corrupt politicians, comically inept diplomats, violent adventurers, fanatical reformers, fraud, and speculation within an increasingly divided and contentious nation. But the president never lost faith in the American people.
Author: Larry Gara
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of American expansionism and diplomacy during Pierce's administration.
Author: Roy F. Nichols
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 1512818259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst definitive biography of the fourteenth President, giving a psychological interpretation of the man in relation to his turbulent times.
Author: Steven Ferry
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Published: 2001-08
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781567668513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the early life, family, political career, and contributions of the fourteenth president of the United States.
Author: Michael F. Holt
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-03-30
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1429922176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a landslide against the imploding Whig Party, he proved a dismal failure in office. Michael F. Holt, a leading historian of nineteenth-century partisan politics, argues that in the wake of the Whig collapse, Pierce was consumed by an obsessive drive to unify his splintering party rather than the roiling country. He soon began to overreach. Word leaked that Pierce wanted Spain to sell the slave-owning island of Cuba to the United States, rousing sectional divisions. Then he supported repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which limited the expansion of slavery in the west. Violence broke out, and "Bleeding Kansas" spurred the formation of the Republican Party. By the end of his term, Pierce's beloved party had ruptured, and he lost the nomination to James Buchanan. In this incisive account, Holt shows how a flawed leader, so dedicated to his party and ill-suited for the presidency, hastened the approach of the Civil War.
Author: Paul Finkelman
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-05-10
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1429923016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe oddly named president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil war In the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. Congress was in an uproar over slavery, and it was not clear if a compromise could be found. In the midst of the debate, President Zachary Taylor suddenly took ill and died. The presidency, and the crisis, now fell to the little-known vice president from upstate New York. In this eye-opening biography, the legal scholar and historian Paul Finkelman reveals how Millard Fillmore's response to the crisis he inherited set the country on a dangerous path that led to the Civil War. He shows how Fillmore stubbornly catered to the South, alienating his fellow Northerners and creating a fatal rift in the Whig Party, which would soon disappear from American politics—as would Fillmore himself, after failing to regain the White House under the banner of the anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic "Know Nothing" Party. Though Fillmore did have an eye toward the future, dispatching Commodore Matthew Perry on the famous voyage that opened Japan to the West and on the central issues of the age—immigration, religious toleration, and most of all slavery—his myopic vision led to the destruction of his presidency, his party, and ultimately, the Union itself.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-11-30
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781540725011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNathaniel Hawthorne was an American author that contributed significantly to the dark romanticism genre. Hawthorne was the great grandson of John Hathorne, one of the judges in the Salem witch trials. To hide the shame Nathaniel added the "w" to his last name. Many of Hawthorne's works are set in the New England area and feature the moral allegories found in the time of the Puritans. The Life of Franklin Pierce, published in 1852, is a short biography of the American president. Hawthorne was friends with Pierce going back to their college days and the book is notable for its insight into Pierce's life.
Author: Jean H. Baker
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780805069464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 2. Presidents United States Biography 3. United States - Politics and Government - 1857-1861.
Author: Gary Ginsberg
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2021-07-06
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1538702940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A USA TODAY "BEST BOOKS OF 2021" PICK! In the bestselling tradition of The Presidents Club and Presidential Courage, White House history as told through the stories of the best friends and closest confidants of American presidents. Here are the riveting histories of myriad presidential friendships, among them: Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed: They shared a bed for four years during which Speed saved his friend from a crippling depression. Two decades later the friends worked together to save the Union. Harry Truman and Eddie Jacobson: When Truman wavered on whether to recognize the state of Israel in 1948, his lifelong friend and former business partner intervened at just the right moment with just the right words to steer the president’s decision. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Daisy Suckley: Unassuming and overlooked during her lifetime, Daisy Suckley was in reality FDR’s most trusted, constant confidant, the respite for a lonely and overworked President navigating the Great Depression and World War II John Kennedy and David Ormsby-Gore: They met as young men in pre-war London and began a conversation over the meaning of leadership. A generation later the Cuban Missile Crisis would put their ideas to test as Ormsby-Gore became the president’s unofficial, but most valued foreign policy advisor. These and other friendships—including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Franklin Pierce and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Bill Clinton and Vernon Jordan—populate this fresh and provocative exploration of a series of seminal presidential friendships. Publishing history teems with books by and about Presidents, First Ladies, First Pets, and even First Chefs. Now former Clinton aide Gary Ginsberg breaks new literary ground on Pennsylvania Avenue and provides fresh insights into the lives of the men who held the most powerful political office in the world by looking at the friends on whom they relied. First Friends is an engaging, serendipitous look into the lives of Commanders-in-Chief and how their presidencies were shaped by those they held most dear.
Author: Charles William Calhoun
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2005-06-06
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780805069525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith dazzling attention to this president's life, the social tapestry of his times, and the political dynasty he was born to which ushered in big government, Calhoun compellingly reconsiders Harrison's legacy.
