Ulysses S. Grant by Josiah Bunting III

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Bob Timmermann

President #18, C-SPAN historians’ ranking #23 Read this unconditionally Americans have never been shy about making their military heroes Presidents. They have ranged from the great (George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt) to pretty darn good (Andrew Jackson and Dwight Eisenhower) to the quickly dead (William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor). Ulysses S. Grant was undoubtedly [...]

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The Presidency of Franklin Pierce by Larry Gara

Posted on October 20, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

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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Polk: the Man who Transformed the Presidency and America by Walter R. Borneman

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

President #11, C-SPAN Historians’ ranking #12 Looks Like My Work Here is Done Between the time of Andrew Jackson and before the time of Abraham Lincoln, American Presidents were an undistinguished lot, to put it kindly. No one served more than one term. Most are forgotten. However, one man in the job managed to stand [...]

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Zachary Taylor by John S. D. Eisenhower

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Bob Timmermann

President #12, C-SPAN Historians ranking #29 He’s Tanned, Rough, and Ready What can be said about a man who was President for just 16 months? What can be said about a President who never held any other political office in his life? What can be said about a man who likely never voted in his [...]

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