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  • The Triumph of Abraham Lincoln
    Garry Boulard
    For more than half a century, a survey of presidential historians has consistently rated Abraham Lincoln as the number one greatest president of the United States. Other names on the top ten of the list, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, have constantly shifted position, but Lincoln has always remained number one in...
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  • Ulysses S. Grant
    Garry Boulard
    'Tolling, slowly tolling, the alarm bells of all America sent to every heart this morning the news, long expected and long dreaded, that Ulysses S. Grant was dead,' announced the Boston Globe on July 23, 1885, just hours after the one-time Commanding General of the U.S. Army and former President of the United States had passed on.Taking note of the extraordinary tributes and de...
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  • Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant
    Garry Boulard
    In the spring of 1865, after the end of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, two men bestrode the national government as giants: Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant.How these two men viewed what a post-war America should look like would determinepolicy and politics for generations to come, impacting the lives of millions of people, Northand South, black and w...
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  • Andrew Johnson
    Garry Boulard
    Few presidents have been as eviscerated in history as Andrew Johnson, who suddenly on a rainy morning in April of 1865 became the nation’s new chief executive upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.A man who rose from dire poverty through a sheer primal force of will, Johnson was elected to every level of government-always taking his case to the people-in a remarkable, if of...
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  • Daniel Sickles
    Garry Boulard
    The name Daniel Sickles and the word controversy are synonymous. Any student of 19th century American political history is familiar with Sickles’ 1859 murder of Philip Barton Key, the son of Francis Scott Key, who had seduced Sickles’ young wife.That murder, because Sickles was at the time a New York Congressman and Key a district attorney for Washington, captured the country’s...
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  • The Worst President--The Story of James Buchanan
    Garry Boulard
    Just 24 hours after former President James Buchanan died on June 1, 1868, the Chicago Tribune rejoiced: 'This desolate old man has gone to his grave. No son or daughter is doomed to acknowledge an ancestry from him.' Nearly a century and a half later, in 2004, writer Christopher Buckley observed 'It is probably just as well that James Buchanan was our only bachelor president. T...
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  • Abraham Lincoln Ascendent
    Garry Boulard
    ABRAHAM LINCOLN ASCENDANT-THE STORY OF THE ELECTION OF 1860Rightly regarded by scholars as perhaps the most important political contest in American history, the election of 1860 is remembered today for making Abraham Lincoln president and by so doing sparking the drive for secession that led to the Civil War.In this compelling and fast-paced account, author Garry Boulard explor...
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  • The Swing Around the Circle
    Garry Boulard
    In 1866, President Andrew Johnson was trying to find solutions to a bewildering array of immediate post-Civil War challenges: what to do about the recently liberated slaves, how to bring the South back into the Union, whether or not former members of the Confederacy should be pardoned and forgiven for their war time acts and building a thriving national economy that would provi...
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  • The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce
    Garry Boulard
    Considered a failure upon leaving the White House in 1857 and thought to be on his way to a well-deserved obscurity, Franklin Pierce during the Civil War emerged as a major spokesman for that era’s Peace Democrats, opposed to President Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and in defense of civil liberties.A Northerner with many close Southern friends, including Jef...
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