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050 00 $aE702$b.C35 2005
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100 1 $aCalhoun, Charles W.$q(Charles William),$d1948-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87839858
245 10 $aBenjamin Harrison /$cCharles W. Calhoun.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bTimes,$c2005.
300 $axvi, 206 pages :$bportrait ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aAmerican presidents series
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [189]-190) and index.
520 1 $a"Politics was in Benjamin Harrison's blood. His great-grandfather was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; his grandfather William Henry Harrison was the ninth president of the United States. Harrison, a leading Indiana lawyer and a strict antislavery Presbyterian, quickly became a champion of the young Republican Party, even taking a leave from his Civil War service to campaign for Abraham Lincoln." "Harrison was a master on the stump, and his speeches advocating the Republicans' ideals of free labor and upward mobility became crowd favorites. After rising through the state party and claiming a U.S. Senate seat, Harrison, who hailed from one of the two important swing states of the day, was chosen by the Republicans as their presidential candidate in 1888. Despite losing the popular vote, he prevailed over the incumbent, Grover Cleveland, in the electoral college." "With the House and Senate under Republican control, Harrison exemplified the activist president. He worked feverishly to put the party's planks into law, including tariff reform and the landmark Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and approved the first billion-dollar peacetime budget. But the Democrats winning control of Congress in 1890, and Harrison's attempts to please Republican Party bosses with government appointments falling short, the president was left with few enthusiastic supporters during his quiet race for reelection. (The First Lady was ill, and died two weeks before election day.) In the end, Harrison's record could not beat Cleveland - and the sectional politics of a still-healing nation - in their unprecedented rematch."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aHarrison, Benjamin,$d1833-1901.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50026594
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106470
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1889-1893.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140451
830 0 $aAmerican presidents series (Times Books (Firm))$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002024996
852 00 $bglx$hE702$i.C35 2005