Rutherford B. Hayes and His Americaby Harry Barnard | |
| Category: |
"U.S. History - Political" |
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| Pages: | 523 |
| Year of Publication: | 1954 |
| Date Added: | 12/14/1998 |
| Date Read: | 09/20/1992 |
| Notes: | All that Hayes had done before, and all that he was to do after the disputed election of 1876 — he had been a fighting brigadier general in the Civil War; he had been an Ohio congressman; he had been Ohio's governor three times; and he was to become the nation's nineteenth president — has been largely lost to history. Hayes, if known at all, is known for the disputed election with Samuel J. Tilden. Hayes seems to have stood passively to the side as events swirled largely around him. In Barnard's words, his book was an attempt to "... try to bring RBH back — to restore him, so to speak, not on a pedestal in some marmoreal pose, but as he was, a man. This is intended, not so much as a biography of a president but rather the biography of a man who happened to become President." |
| My Rating: | 8 |