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Download or read book James Buchanan written by Jean H. Baker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 2. Presidents United States Biography 3. United States - Politics and Government - 1857-1861.
Book Synopsis President James Buchanan a Biography by : Philip Shriver Klein
Download or read book President James Buchanan a Biography written by Philip Shriver Klein and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Presidency of James Buchanan by : Elbert B. Smith
Download or read book The Presidency of James Buchanan written by Elbert B. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers conclusions that are very different from most of the traditional historical interpretations of the Buchanan presidency. Historians have either condemned Buchanan for weakness and vacillation or portrayed him as a president dedicated to peace who did everything constitutionally possible to avoid war. Under the scrutiny of Elbert B. Smith, Buchanan emerges as a strong figure who made vital contributions not to peace but to the accelerating animosities that produced the war. "Historians who have considered the Civil War a necessary and justifiable price for the destruction of slavery should feel a debt to James Buchanan," Smith writes. "Those who think the war could and should have been avoided owe him nothing." Most of the accounts of the era have concentrated on the Dred Scott Case, Bleeding Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown, the rise of the Republicans and the disintegration of the Democrats, the election of 1860, and the bitter quarrels over slavery extension occasioned by these events. Buchanan has often appeared on a stage occupied by more important actors. Whether or not the war was already inevitable by March, 1857, cannot be proved. That a subsequent series of emotion-packed events filled both North and South with rage and fear, triggering secession and the war, is undebatable. It is Smith's theory that Buchanan, in leading the United States through these fateful years, added much to the war spirit that developed in both sections. Driven by affection and sympathy for the Southerners, he tried to satisfy their demands for slavery rights in the territories. This aroused bitter anti-South feelings throughout the North, which foiled his efforts and further convinced the Southerners that they could no longer have their way inside the Union. The one event that finally triggered the Southern secession was the election of a Republican president, and Buchanan's agreement with the Southern demands and his personal hatred for Stephen A. Douglas did much to accomplish this. Covering the most controversial period in American history, Smith presents important new evaluations for the consideration of students of both the Civil War and the presidency.
Book Synopsis Life of James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States. Volume 2 by : Curtis, George Ticknor
Download or read book Life of James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States. Volume 2 written by Curtis, George Ticknor and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1883-01-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Worst President--The Story of James Buchanan by : Garry Boulard
Download or read book The Worst President--The Story of James Buchanan written by Garry Boulard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. There are no descendants bracing every morning on opening the paper to find another heading announcing: ‘Buchanan Once Again Rated Worst President in History.’” How to explain such remarkably consistent historical views of the man who turned over a divided and demoralized country to Abraham Lincoln, the same man regarded through the decades by presidential scholars as the worst president in U.S. history? In this exploration of the presidency of James Buchanan, 1857-61, Garry Boulard revisits the 15th President and comes away with a stunning conclusion: Buchanan’s performance as the nation’s chief executive was even more deplorable and sordid than scholars generally know, making his status as the country’s worst president richly deserved. Boulard documents Buchanan’s failure to stand up to the slaveholding interests of the South, his indecisiveness in dealing with the secession movement, and his inability to provide leadership during the nation’s gravest constitutional crisis. Using the letters of Buchanan, as well as those of more than two dozen political leaders and thinkers of the time, Boulard presents a narrative of a timid and vacillating president whose drift and isolation opened the door to the Civil War. The author of The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce: The Story of a President and the Civil War (iUniverse, 2006), Boulard has reported for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times and is a business writer for the Albuquerque-based Construction Reporter.
Book Synopsis Life of James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States. Volume 1 by : Curtis, George Ticknor
Download or read book Life of James Buchanan, fifteenth President of the United States. Volume 1 written by Curtis, George Ticknor and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1883-01-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Worst. President. Ever. by : Robert Strauss
Download or read book Worst. President. Ever. written by Robert Strauss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening—and highly entertaining!—account of poor James Buchanan’s presidency to prove once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse. But author Robert Strauss does much more, leading readers out of Buchanan’s terrible term in office—meddling in the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, exacerbating the Panic of 1857, helping foment the John Brown uprisings and “Bloody Kansas,” virtually inviting a half-dozen states to secede from the Union as a lame duck, and on and on—to explore with insight and humor his own obsession with presidents, and ultimately the entire notion of ranking our presidents. He guides us through the POTUS rating game of historians and others who have made their own Mount Rushmores—or Marianas Trenches!—of presidential achievement, showing why Buchanan easily loses to any of the others, but also offering insights into presidential history buffs like himself, the forgotten "lesser" presidential sites, sex and the presidency, the presidency itself, and how and why it can often take the best measures out of even the most dedicated men.
Book Synopsis James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War by : John W. Quist
Download or read book James Buchanan and the Coming of the Civil War written by John W. Quist and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As James Buchanan took office in 1857, the United States found itself at a crossroads. Dissolution of the Union had been averted and the Democratic Party maintained control of the federal government, but the nation watched to see if Pennsylvania's first president could make good on his promise to calm sectional tensions. Despite Buchanan's central role in a crucial hour in U.S. history, few presidents have been more ignored by historians. In assembling the essays for this volume, Michael Birkner and John Quist have asked leading scholars to reconsider whether Buchanan’s failures stemmed from his own mistakes or from circumstances that no president could have overcome. Buchanan's dealings with Utah shed light on his handling of the secession crisis. His approach to Dred Scott reinforces the image of a president whose doughface views were less a matter of hypocrisy than a thorough identification with southern interests. Essays on the secession crisis provide fodder for debate about the strengths and limitations of presidential authority in an existential moment for the young nation. Although the essays in this collection offer widely differing interpretations of Buchanan's presidency, they all grapple honestly with the complexities of the issues faced by the man who sat in the White House prior to the towering figure of Lincoln, and contribute to a deeper understanding of a turbulent and formative era.
Book Synopsis Life of James Buchanan by : George Ticknor Curtis
Download or read book Life of James Buchanan written by George Ticknor Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bosom Friends by : Thomas J. Balcerski
Download or read book Bosom Friends written by Thomas J. Balcerski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The friendship of the bachelor politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the years. Why did neither marry? Might they have been gay? Or was their relationship a nineteenth-century version of the modern-day "bromance"? In Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, Thomas J. Balcerski explores the lives of these two politicians and discovers one of the most significant collaborations in American political history. He traces the parallels in the men's personal and professional lives before elected office, including their failed romantic courtships and the stories they told about them. Unlikely companions from the start, they lived together as congressional messmates in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse and became close confidantes. Around the nation's capital, the men were mocked for their effeminacy and perhaps their sexuality, and they were likened to Siamese twins. Over time, their intimate friendship blossomed into a significant cross-sectional political partnership. Balcerski examines Buchanan's and King's contributions to the Jacksonian political agenda, manifest destiny, and the increasingly divisive debates over slavery, while contesting interpretations that the men lacked political principles and deserved blame for the breakdown of the union. He closely narrates each man's rise to national prominence, as William Rufus King was elected vice-president in 1852 and James Buchanan the nation's fifteenth president in 1856, despite the political gossip that circulated about them. While exploring a same-sex relationship that powerfully shaped national events in the antebellum era, Bosom Friends demonstrates that intimate male friendships among politicians were--and continue to be--an important part of success in American politics.
Book Synopsis Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States by : George Ticknor Curtis
Download or read book Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States written by George Ticknor Curtis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Book Synopsis Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion by : James Buchanan
Download or read book Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion written by James Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis President James Buchanan by : Philip S. Klein
Download or read book President James Buchanan written by Philip S. Klein and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis James Buchanan by : Megan M. Gunderson
Download or read book James Buchanan written by Megan M. Gunderson and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography introduces readers to James Buchanan including his early political career and key events from Buchanan's administration including the Dred Scott case and the secession of seven Southern states prior to the American Civil War. 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.
Download or read book James Buchanan written by Hourly History and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the remarkable life of James Buchanan...James Buchanan began life as a country boy in rural Pennsylvania. He would later leave the farm for law school and, after that, politics. Buchanan's ascent to the presidency was a careful and steady rise; he checked all of the requisite boxes and took all of the necessary steps he believed the office required, but nevertheless, when Buchanan was inaugurated president in March of 1857, he had inherited a powder keg that was just waiting to explode into the turmoil that was the American Civil War. James Buchanan has since been lambasted as being the great appeaser who placated the South enough to embolden them to secede from the Union. He is frequently listed as one of the worst presidents in the history of the United States. Buchanan himself, however, always held out the hope that history would vindicate him and the role he played. In this book, we explore James Buchanan's life-before, during, and after the American Civil War-in full. Discover a plethora of topics such as Life, Love, and Loss A Man of Manifest Destiny Buchanan in Britain President Buchanan: The Early Years The Outbreak of the Civil War Life after the Presidency And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on James Buchanan, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
Book Synopsis Life of James Buchanan by : C. Jerome
Download or read book Life of James Buchanan written by C. Jerome and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Life of James Buchanan; Fifteenth President of the United States .. by : George Ticknor Curtis
Download or read book Life of James Buchanan; Fifteenth President of the United States .. written by George Ticknor Curtis and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. 1841--1842. DEATH OF PSESTDENT HAKMSOX--KXEACH BETWEEN WSSKNT TTtEB JL3TD THE WHIGS TTLEES VETOES Btchjlxix S BCTLT TO CLXI OB THE VETO POWER--HIS OFTOSmON TO THE KiHTW ACT OT lSil. EARELY has a party in a constitutional government come into power with apparently a better prospect of doing good to their country, and retaining their hold upon it, than did the "Whigs under President Harrison. This worthy man, who was by no means a statesman of the first or even of the second order, was a person of firir intelligence, of entire honesty of character, and was moderately well tasght in the principles of the Constitution. Almost his first act. after his election, was to tender the chief place in his cabinet to Mr. Webster. This was done with the concurrence of Mr. Clay, whom it ssited to remain in the Senate, as its leader, and who expected to cany a new national bank, as a remedy for the exiting disordered condition of the currency. But General Harrison died on the day which completed the first month of his oSeial term. His successor. John Tyler, oi Virginia, had been chosen as Vice President, with very little attention to his political opinions on the part of those who selected him for that position, or cf those who voted for him. "When he assumed the duties of the Presidency, he requested the members cf General Harrison's cabinet to remain in office. They were all of that political school which regarded a national lank of some kind as a necessity, and held it to be an instrnn: er.t of Government which Corress might constitutionally create. President Harrison and his ofikial advisers had deemed it necessary to convene an extra session of Congress; and his proclamation had summoned it for the 31st of May. When that day...
