num_pages: 400
description: Grover Cleveland is known primarily as the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms. But his record as a staunch reformer is equally from fighting powerful bosses in both political parties and vetoing bills he considered raids on the Treasury to resisting American imperialism and robber barons alike. And when he became embroiled in scandal -- from fathering a child out of wedlock to (legally) evading the Civil War -- he faced his past truthfully and confronted his demons directly. 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 today's politicians than perhaps that of any other leader in American history.
language: English
title: An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
titlecomplete: An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
characters: Grover Cleveland
genres: Historical, History, Presidents, American History, Us Presidents, Biography Memoir, Leadership, Politics, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1336
places: Buffalo, New York, Washington, D.C., Fayetteville, New York
publisher: Harper Perennial