President James Buchanan, a Biography

President James Buchanan, a Biography
ISBN-10
0271730935
ISBN-13
9780271730936
Category
Biography & Autobiography / General
Pages
506
Language
English
Published
1962
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Author
Philip Shriver Klein

Description

The life of James Buchanan is in essence the story of a man who declined to be a dictator. Republics are traditionally ungrateful, and in Buchanan's case the American republic has been notoriously thankless to the man who was, from log cabin to White House, the relentless foe of fanatics and demagogues; a man who held that reason and restraint were the essential tools of self-government, and who bent all his energies to achieve by means of law and diplomacy what others later sought to accomplish by civil war. -- goodreads.com

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