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1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 10 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Raymond Todd. |
| Summary |
Today, Grover Cleveland is chiefly known as the only president to have been elected to two nonconsecutive terms. But in his day, Cleveland was a renowned reformer: an enemy of political machines who joined forces with Theodore Roosevelt to fight powerful party bosses, a moralist who vetoed bills he considered blatant raids on the Treasury, and a vigorous defender of the Monroe Doctrine who resisted American imperialism. Cleveland's career in office was plagued by scandal and a gossip-mongering press. During his first presidential bid, he was persecuted for fathering a child out of wedlock, a charge to which Cleveland readily admitted. At the age of forty-nine, he married his twenty-one-year-old ward, and after the nation's initial surprise, she became the most popular first lady of her day. On his deathbed, Cleveland would sum up his career simply: "I have tried so hard to do right." In graceful and enduring prose, H. Paul Jeffers gives us the first full look at a president whose moral timber and courageous administrations have more to say to today's politicians than perhaps that of any other leader in American history. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.
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Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1885-1889.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1893-1897.
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Todd, Raymond. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982429850 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982429852 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10078601 |
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