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Franklin Pierce

The American Presidents Series: the 14th President, 1853-1857

Franklin Pierce( )
Author: Holt, Michael F.
Editor: Schlesinger, Arthur M.
Wilentz, Sean
Series title:The American Presidents Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4299-2217-3
Publication Date:Mar 2010
Publisher:Henry Holt & Company
Imprint:Times Books
Book Format:Ebook
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The 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,...
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Pages:176
Author Biography
Holt, Michael F. (Author)
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. is renowned as a historian, a public intellectual, & a political activist. He served as a special assistant to President John F. Kennedy; won two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1946 for "The Age of Jackson" & in 1966 for "A Thousand Days," & in 1998 was the recipient of the National Humanities Medal. He lives in New York City.

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