num_pages: 498
description: In this second volume of Wallner's Pierce biography, President Pierce faces unscrupulous and corrupt politicians, comically inept diplomats, violent adventurers, fanatical reformers, fraud, and speculation within an increasingly divided and contentious nation. But the president never lost faith in the American people.
language: English
title: Franklin Pierce: Martyr for the Union
publisher: Plaidswede Publishing Co.