An Honest President, H. Paul Jeffers
An Honest President, H. Paul Jeffers
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An Honest President
The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland

Author: H. Paul Jeffers

Narrator: Raymond Todd

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2012


Synopsis

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. Clevelands 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 nations 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 todays politicians than perhaps that of any other leader in American history.

About H. Paul Jeffers

H. Paul Jeffers (1934–2009) authored more than seventy books of fiction and nonfiction, including several biographies.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris

If anything, this book proves that the only thing interesting about Cleveland was that he was the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms.......more

Goodreads review by James

Grover Cleveland is portrayed in this book as an unbendingly honest and upright individual while many of the most significant "compromises" which he made during his two non-consecutive terms in the Presidency as well as his overall inefficiency and inflexibility are overlooked. Jeffers glides by the......more

Goodreads review by Porter

Another book that I enjoyed, but didn't really capture me. I didn't know much about Cleveland. While I know more than I did before I read it, I still can't tell you what I think of the man. There were some fun points, who can forget the anecdote, "In the senate maybe, but not the house." (If you don'......more

Goodreads review by Brian

Cleveland is one of those rare Gilded Age Presidents and politicians who deserve the full biography treatment and that is primarily because of his rare character. While he was only one of two Presidents between Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt to succeed in being elected twice to the Chief Executive o......more