President #14, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #40 At least Nathaniel Hawthorne liked him Franklin Pierce is a very difficult president to read about. There weren’t many biographies written about him. A man named Peter Wallner wrote a two volume biography of Pierce that was published between 2004 and 2007. However, that was two too many volumes [...]
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