Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King

by Thomas J Balcerski, James Buchanan, Thomas J. Balcerski

The friendship of the bachelor politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the years. Why did neither marry? Might they have been gay? Or was their relationship a nineteenth-century version of the modern-day "bromance"?

In Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, Thomas J. Balcerski explores the lives of these two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190914599
• ISBN13: 9780190914592
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"