President James Buchanan, a Biography, Volume 10The life of James Buchanan is in essence the story of a man who declined to be a dictator. Republics are traditionally ungrateful, and in Buchanan's case the American republic has been notoriously thankless to the man who was, from log cabin to White House, the relentless foe of fanatics and demagogues; a man who held that reason and restraint were the essential tools of self-government, and who bent all his energies to achieve by means of law and diplomacy what others later sought to accomplish by civil war. -- goodreads.com |
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PENNSYLVANIA PIONEER 17831809 | 1 |
PREFACE TO POLITICS 18091819 | 13 |
BIRTH OF A BACHELOR 18191820 | 27 |
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