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An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland Library Edition
Contributor(s): Jeffers, H. Paul (Author), Todd, Raymond (Read by)
ISBN: 0786193735     ISBN-13: 9780786193738
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
OUR PRICE:   $22.46  
Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats
Published: February 2002
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State
- Biography & Autobiography | Political
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.74" W x 5" (0.21 lbs)
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
 
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Publisher Description:
Today, Grover Cleveland is chiefly known as the only president to have been elected to two nonconsecutive terms. But in his day, Cleveland was a renowned reformer: an enemy of political machines who joined forces with Theodore Roosevelt to fight powerful party bosses, a moralist who vetoed bills he considered blatant raids on the Treasury, and a vigorous defender of the Monroe Doctrine who resisted American imperialism. Cleveland's career in office was plagued by scandal and a gossip-mongering press. During his first presidential bid, he was persecuted for fathering a child out of wedlock, a charge to which Cleveland readily admitted. At the age of forty-nine, he married his twenty-one-year-old ward, and after the nation's initial surprise, she became the most popular first lady of her day. On his deathbed, Cleveland would sum up his career simply: "I have tried so hard to do right." In graceful and enduring prose, H. Paul Jeffers gives us the first full look at a president whose moral timber and courageous administrations have more to say to today's politicians than perhaps that of any other leader in American history.

Contributor Bio(s): Jeffers, H. Paul: -

H. Paul Jeffers (1934-2009) authored more than seventy books of fiction and nonfiction, including several biographies.

Todd, Raymond: -

Raymond Todd is an actor and director in the theater as well as a poet and documentary filmmaker. He plays jazz trombone for the Leatherstocking quartet, an ensemble that gets its name from one of his favorite Blackstone narrations, The Deerslayer. Todd lives in New York.