Presidency of Benjamin Harrison

by Allan B. Spetter, Homer E. Socolofsky, Allan Spetter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700603204
• ISBN13: 9780700603206
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"