Grover Cleveland, Henry F. Graff
Grover Cleveland, Henry F. Graff
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Grover Cleveland
The American Presidents Series: The 22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897

Author: Henry F. Graff, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Narrator: Ira Claffey

Unabridged: 4 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2003


Synopsis

A fresh look at the only president to serve nonconsecutive terms.

Though often overlooked, Grover Cleveland was a significant figure in American presidential history. Having run for President three times and gaining the popular vote majority each time -- despite losing the electoral college in 1892 -- Cleveland was unique in the line of nineteenth-century Chief Executives.

In this book, presidential historian Henry F. Graff revives Cleveland's fame, explaining how he fought to restore stature to the office in the wake of several weak administrations. Within these pages are the elements of a rags-to-riches story as well as an account of the political world that created American leaders before the advent of modern media.

About Henry F. Graff

Henry F. Graff is a professor emeritus of history at Columbia University, where he taught his pioneering seminar on the presidency. The author of The Tuesday Cabinet and the reference work The Presidents, he is a frequent commentator on radio and television. He lives in New York.

About Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., (1917-2007) was the preeminent political historian of our time. For more than half a century, he was a cornerstone figure in the intellectual life of the nation and a fixture on the political scene. He won two Pulitzer prizes for The Age of Jackson (1946) and A Thousand Days (1966), and in 1988 received the National Humanities Medal. He published the first volume of his autobiography, A Life in the Twentieth Century, in 2000.

About Ira Claffey

Ira Claffey has narrated or co-narrated numerous audio titles from Macmillan Audio.  His work includes Rock Rats,and several tiles in the American Presidents Series: Thomas Jefferson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland, James Madison, and Theodore Roosevelt.  Of Claffey’s narration of Theodore Roosevelt, AudioFile magazine has said, “Ira Claffey's passionate but cultivated voice is the perfect medium in which to join two men of refinement.”


Reviews

Goodreads review by robin on July 30, 2024

Integrity and Stolidity In An American President This short book is part of "The American Presidents" series edited by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The series devotes a short volume to the life and accomplishments of each American President. The books in the series can be read quickly, and each gives the......more

Goodreads review by Bill on March 12, 2019

Okay, I have to admit it. If I hadn’t promised myself I’d read every volume of Times Books’ “The American President’s Series,” I would never have read this biography of Grover Cleveland. I had the hunch that—given the little I knew about Cleveland—he was a stuffy and cautious president, and I also h......more

Goodreads review by Frank on September 08, 2017

This is a brief and efficient biography of one of America's forgotten Presidents. Yet, as Henry Graff shows, for many years the laconic Grover Cleveland was at the center of American political life. His rise from being the son of a poor and sickly Presbyterian minister, who died just before Clevelan......more

Goodreads review by David on October 05, 2021

Enjoyable introduction that made me more interested in learning about ol Stephen.......more

Goodreads review by Ben on July 20, 2019

Grover Cleveland is the twenty-second book in The American Presidents series – a biographical series chronicling the Presidents of the United States. Henry F. Graff wrote this particular installment and edited by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Stephen Grover Cleveland was an American politician and lawye......more


Quotes

"In this brief, excellent volume written for Arthur Schlesinger's American Presidents series, Columbia professor emeritus Graff (The Tuesday Cabinet) picks up the often neglected Grover Cleveland, dusts him off and reminds us how substantial he was. " - Publishers Weekly