The presidency of Benjamin Harrison
By: Homer E. Socolofsky and Allan B. Spetter.
Contributors: Spetter, Allan B., 1939-
Series: American presidency series
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901; United States -- Politics and government -- 1889-1893
Description: "Benjamin Harrison was an early proponent of American expansion in the Pacific, a key figure in such landmark legislation as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the McKinley Tariff, and one of the Gilded Age's most eloquent speakers. Yet he remains one of our most neglected and least understood presidents. In this first interpretive study of the Harrison administration, the authors illuminate our twenty-third president's character and policies and rescue him from the long shadow of his charismatic secretary of state, James G. Blaine."--Publisher.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 209-254.
Includes index.