Unsung Heroes: Ohioans in the White House : A Modern Appraisal
by Burris Cash
Category: History

In the half century between Reconstruction and the Roaring Twenties, swven of the ten men in the White House were Ohioans, presiding over theindustrialization of America and its emergence as a world power. James Cash's portrait of these men appraises from the vantage pointof our own time and in this strange sepia land so distant from us, they begin to emerge from theit formal portraits as men of flesh and blood while Ohio becomes a powerful country, a metaphor for America itself. Cash's thoughtful work illuminates this distant landscape in a new light.