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Chargement... The Forgotten Conservative: Rediscovering Grover Clevelandpar John M. Pafford
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Grover Cleveland is truly the forgotten conservative: a man of dignity, integrity, and courage often overlooked by the history books. Historian and author John Pafford reveals a president who deserves more attention. Cleveland might not have presided over deeply troubled times, but he set a standard for principled leadership in office that is especially relevant today. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The non-consecutive meat of the book is devoted to Grover's presidential terms, where he indeed displayed a free trade, limited government attitude to the politics of the day. In this sense, he is the last Democrat in the mold of Jackson, and a throwback like Harding and Coolidge would be in the 1920s. The presidency and the politics of the time are explained in detail but not in depth, and the reasoning behind Cleveland's actions—Cleveland had a political philosophy—is the most illumanitive portion of the book. The author is definitely (look at the title) advocating for a government that is limited in scope, i.e. it's not the government's job to try to make things nice for everybody, it's a neutral umpire of the law.
The book has a lengthy appendix of some of Cleveland's speeches on the role of government; serviceable endnotes and a cursory bibliography. There is an excellent selection of plates with great photographs and COLOR political cartoons that help illustrate the history and politics of the time-period, with nice captions, but the pics and toons are not mentioned in the text. ( )