Author: Charles William Calhoun
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805069525
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
With dazzling attention to this president's life, the social tapestry of his times, and the political dynasty he was born to which ushered in big government, Calhoun compellingly reconsiders Harrison's legacy.
Benjamin Harrison
Author: Charles William Calhoun
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805069525
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
With dazzling attention to this president's life, the social tapestry of his times, and the political dynasty he was born to which ushered in big government, Calhoun compellingly reconsiders Harrison's legacy.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805069525
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
With dazzling attention to this president's life, the social tapestry of his times, and the political dynasty he was born to which ushered in big government, Calhoun compellingly reconsiders Harrison's legacy.
Benjamin Harrison
Author: Anne Chieko Moore
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600210662
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Benjamin Harrison was an honest, intelligent, hardworking lawyer from Indiana who became the twenty-third President of the United States. During his term in office, he signed important legislation and provided leadership in negotiating foreign policy, striving to advance the United States toward becoming a world power. The book presents an up-to-date and cogent biography of this president who is now considered one of the better presidents of the late nineteenth century.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600210662
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Benjamin Harrison was an honest, intelligent, hardworking lawyer from Indiana who became the twenty-third President of the United States. During his term in office, he signed important legislation and provided leadership in negotiating foreign policy, striving to advance the United States toward becoming a world power. The book presents an up-to-date and cogent biography of this president who is now considered one of the better presidents of the late nineteenth century.
Benjamin Harrison
Author: Sandra Francis
Publisher: Childs World Incorporated
ISBN: 9781602530522
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Presents the life, career, and accomplishments of the twenty-third president of the United States.
Publisher: Childs World Incorporated
ISBN: 9781602530522
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Presents the life, career, and accomplishments of the twenty-third president of the United States.
The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
Author: Homer Edward Socolofsky
Publisher: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Benjamin Harrison was an early proponent of American expansion in the Pacific, a key figure in such landmark legislation as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the McKinley Tariff, and one of the Gilded Age's most eloquent speakers. Yet he remains one of our most neglected and least understood presidents. In this first interpretive study of the Harrison administration, the authors illuminate our twenty-third president's character and policies and rescue him from the long shadow of his charismatic secretary of state, James G. Blaine. An Ohio native and Indiana lawyer, Harrison opened the second century of the American presidency in a rapidly industrializing and expanding nation. His inaugural address reflected the nation's optimism: "The masses of our people are better fed, clothed, and housed than their fathers were. The facilities for popular education have been vastly enlarged and more generally diffused. The virtues of courage and patriotism have given proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people." But the burdens and realities of his office soon imposed themselves upon Harrison. The biggest blow came at midterm with the Republicans' devastating losses in the 1890 congressional elections. In an era of congressional dominance, those losses eroded Harrison's position as a legislative advocate—at least, for domestic issues. His impact in foreign affairs was more lasting. One of the highlights of this study is its revealing look at Harrison's visionary foreign policy, especially toward the Pacific. Socolofsky and Spetter convincingly demonstrate that although Harrison's ambition to acquire the Hawaiian Islands was not realized during his presidency, his foreign policy was a major step toward American control of Hawaii and American expansion in the Far East.
Publisher: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Benjamin Harrison was an early proponent of American expansion in the Pacific, a key figure in such landmark legislation as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the McKinley Tariff, and one of the Gilded Age's most eloquent speakers. Yet he remains one of our most neglected and least understood presidents. In this first interpretive study of the Harrison administration, the authors illuminate our twenty-third president's character and policies and rescue him from the long shadow of his charismatic secretary of state, James G. Blaine. An Ohio native and Indiana lawyer, Harrison opened the second century of the American presidency in a rapidly industrializing and expanding nation. His inaugural address reflected the nation's optimism: "The masses of our people are better fed, clothed, and housed than their fathers were. The facilities for popular education have been vastly enlarged and more generally diffused. The virtues of courage and patriotism have given proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people." But the burdens and realities of his office soon imposed themselves upon Harrison. The biggest blow came at midterm with the Republicans' devastating losses in the 1890 congressional elections. In an era of congressional dominance, those losses eroded Harrison's position as a legislative advocate—at least, for domestic issues. His impact in foreign affairs was more lasting. One of the highlights of this study is its revealing look at Harrison's visionary foreign policy, especially toward the Pacific. Socolofsky and Spetter convincingly demonstrate that although Harrison's ambition to acquire the Hawaiian Islands was not realized during his presidency, his foreign policy was a major step toward American control of Hawaii and American expansion in the Far East.
Benjamin Harrison
Author: Megan M. Gunderson
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1098212177
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
This biography introduces readers to Benjamin Harrison including his early political career and key events from Harrison's administration including the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1098212177
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
This biography introduces readers to Benjamin Harrison including his early political career and key events from Harrison's administration including the Sherman Silver Purchase Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Mr. President
Author: Ray E. Boomhower
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871954281
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Mr. President: A Life of Benjamin Harrison, the thirteenth volume in the Indiana Historical Society Press’s youth biography series, examines Harrison’s rise to political prominence after his service as a Union army general during the Civil War. Although he served only one term, defeated for re-election by Cleveland in 1892, Harrison had some impressive achievements during his four years in the White House. His administration worked to have Congress pass the Sherman Antitrust Act to limit business monopolies, fought to protect voting rights for African American citizens in the South, preserved millions of acres for forest reserves and national parks, modernized the American navy, and negotiated several successful trade agreements with other countries in the Western Hemisphere. After losing the White House, Harrison returned to Indianapolis, once again becoming one of the city’s leading citizens. He died from pneumonia on March 13, 1901, in his home on North Delaware Street, today open to the public as the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
ISBN: 0871954281
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Mr. President: A Life of Benjamin Harrison, the thirteenth volume in the Indiana Historical Society Press’s youth biography series, examines Harrison’s rise to political prominence after his service as a Union army general during the Civil War. Although he served only one term, defeated for re-election by Cleveland in 1892, Harrison had some impressive achievements during his four years in the White House. His administration worked to have Congress pass the Sherman Antitrust Act to limit business monopolies, fought to protect voting rights for African American citizens in the South, preserved millions of acres for forest reserves and national parks, modernized the American navy, and negotiated several successful trade agreements with other countries in the Western Hemisphere. After losing the White House, Harrison returned to Indianapolis, once again becoming one of the city’s leading citizens. He died from pneumonia on March 13, 1901, in his home on North Delaware Street, today open to the public as the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site.
Benjamin Harrison
Author: Robert Green
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756502706
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A biography of the twenty-third president of the United States, discussing his personal life, education, and political career.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780756502706
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
A biography of the twenty-third president of the United States, discussing his personal life, education, and political career.
The Lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton
Author: Gilbert L. Harney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States
Author: Benjamin Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States; a complete collection of his public addresses from February 1888, to February, 1892 ...
Author: Harrison, Benjamin
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623768640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623768640
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description