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<p><b>The scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big government</b><br><br>Politics was in Benjamin Harrison's blood. His great-grandfather signed the Declaration and his grandfather, William Henry Harrison, was the ninth president of the United States. Harrison, a leading Indiana lawyer, became a Republican Party champion, even taking a leave from the Civil War to campaign for Lincoln. 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. Despite losing the popular vote, he trounced the incumbent, Grover Cleveland, in the electoral college. <br><br>In contrast to standard histories, which dismiss Harrison's presidency as corrupt and inactive, Charles W. Calhoun sweeps away the stereotypes of the age to reveal the accomplishments of our twenty-third president. 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. But the Democrats won Congress in 1890, stalling his legislative agenda, and with the First Lady ill, his race for reelection proceeded qu

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Author

Calhoun, Charles W.; Schlesinger, Jr., Arthur M.

Publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283125161

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Political Science

Rating

3.75 / 5 (662 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14