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.
With dazzling attention to this president\'s life and the social tapestry of his times, Calhoun compellingly reconsiders Harrison\'s legacy.. (She died just before the election.) In the end, Harrison could not beat Cleveland in their unprecedented rematch.
But the Democrats won Congress in 1890, stalling his legislative agenda, and with the First Lady ill, his race for reelection proceeded quietly.
With Congress under Republican control, he exemplified the activist president, working feverishly to put the Party\'s planks into law and approving the first billion-dollar peacetime budget.
Calhoun sweeps away the stereotypes of the age to reveal the accomplishments of our twenty-third president.
In contrast to standard histories, which dismiss Harrison\'s presidency as corrupt and inactive, Charles W.
Despite losing the popular vote, he trounced the incumbent, Grover Cleveland, in the electoral college.
After a scandal-free term in the Senate-no small feat in the Gilded Age-the Republicans chose Harrison as their presidential candidate in 1888.
Harrison, a leading Indiana lawyer, became a Republican Party champion, even taking a leave from the Civil War to campaign for Lincoln.
His great-grandfather signed the Declaration and his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth President of the United States.
The scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big government Politics was in Benjamin Harrison\'s blood.
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
