Franklin Pierce - - the fourteenth President of the United Sates - - has existed in the public mind as a stereotype rather than as a many-sided human being. The predominate picture that we have of him is that of a weak and shallow man, a "mediocrity" who left little imprint upon the history of the United States. This stereotype, however, is grossly misleading, for Franklin Pierce was not a simple man. Indeed, his personality was complex, made up of varying strengths and conflicting inadequacies, while his life, full of inner turmoil, had an aspect of overwhelming tragedy. This authoritative biography makes available a full-scale study of an unusually interesting human being. With the same thoroughness and intensity that have distinguished all if his historical writing, Roy F. Nichols follows Pierce's life from his earliest years in New Hampshire, though his college career at Bowdoin, his marriage into the distinguished ranks of an established New England family, his rise in politics, his services as a brigadier general of volunteers in the Mexican War, and his election to the Presidency as a "dark Horse" candidate of the Democratic Party. Mr. Nichols minutely examines all the domestic and international crises that beset Pierce's administration - - the growing conflict between North and South that was to erupt within a decade into civil war, the abortive attempt to annex Cuba, the troubled relations with England, the filibustering activities of such men as William Walker which aroused much resentment in Central America toward the United States. Not only does the author refashion the exciting events of these critical days in American history, but he also unfolds, with sympathy and compassion, the tragic developments that dogged Pierce in his personal life -- his difficult marriage, his wife's illness, the death of three sons, the final bleak years of obscurity before he passed away, almost forgotten by the nation he had served.

Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills

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Nichols, Roy

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American Political Biography Press

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Memorials of Sarah Childress Polk: Wife of the Eleventh President of the United States

Anson Nelson

Fanny Nelson

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In the Days of McKinley

Leech, Margaret

Based upon extensive use of the Van Buren papers and other basic primary sources of the period, this is a readable, authoitative biography of the 8th President of the United States and a close political ally of Andrew Jackson, and later upholder of the Jacksonian tradition.

Martin Van Buren : The Romantic Age of American Politics (Signature Series)

Niven, John

John Niven

Speirs, Katherine

Book by August Heckscher, Speirs, Katherine, Heckscher, August

Woodrow Wilson : A Biography (Signature Series)

August Heckscher

Heckscher, August

The 1920's challenge the historian and the general reader with the controversial and misunderstood figure of Warren G. Harding, president from 1921 until his death in 1923. Professor Murray re-examines and re-evaluates Harding's nomination, election, and presidency in the light of newly available materials, especially the Harding Papers. He demonstrates that Harding was not a bumbling nonentity as heretofore pictured and that his administration was surprisingly successful in solving its immediate problems. Inheriting domestic and international chaos, the administration engineered an efficient transition from the postwar turmoil of the late Wilson years to a time of prosperity under Collidge. Significantly also, it established the basic outlines of Republican party policy for the rest of the decade. As Professor Murray makes clear, Harding was more than a bystander in these accomplishments; he was a catalytic influence, succeeding where a different personality might have failed. Harding's failure, the author concludes, was not in the nature of his administration but in himself and his friends. His own flaws, coupled with the corrupt activity of such associates as Forbes, Miller, and Fall, tipped the scales in the public's eyes against his administration's achievements. In the process, many persistent myths were created. Now, in this book, the myths are analyzed and, wherever necessary, dispelled.

The Harding Era: Warren G. Harding and His Administration (Signature Series)

Murray, Robert K.

Pulitzer Prize Winner for Biography or Autobiography (1933)

To the Loss of the Presidency (Grover Cleveland a Study in Courage, Vol. 1)

NEVINS, ALLAN

ALLAN NEVINS

To the End of a Career (Grover Cleveland a Study in Courage, Vol. 2)

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To the Vice Presidency (Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, Vol. 1)

Peterson, Merrill D.

Merrill D. Peterson

Return to Monticello (Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, Vol. 2)

Return to Monticello (Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, Vol. 2)

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Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills

Memorials of Sarah Childress Polk: Wife of the Eleventh President of the United States

In the Days of McKinley

Martin Van Buren : The Romantic Age of American Politics (Signature Series)

Woodrow Wilson : A Biography (Signature Series)

The Harding Era: Warren G. Harding and His Administration (Signature Series)

To the Loss of the Presidency (Grover Cleveland a Study in Courage, Vol. 1)

To the End of a Career (Grover Cleveland a Study in Courage, Vol. 2)

To the Vice Presidency (Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, Vol. 1)

Return to Monticello (Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation, Vol. 2)