Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory Of The Granite Hills
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 2nd ed., completely revised
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
This meticulously researched political biography chronicles the life and presidency of Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth President of the United States, tracing his journey from his New Hampshire roots to the turbulent national stage of the 1850s. Roy Franklin Nichols presents Pierce as a complex and often misunderstood figure, a charming and capable politician whose administration was ultimately overwhelmed by the escalating sectional crisis over slavery. With a scholarly yet accessible tone, the narrative details Pierce's early legal career, his military service in the Mexican-American War, and the tragic personal losses that shadowed his time in the White House. Nichols argues that Pierce's commitment to preserving the Union through compromise, most notably his support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, paradoxically accelerated the very conflict he sought to prevent. A landmark work in American presidential history, Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills remains an authoritative and sympathetic portrait of a president long dismissed by history.
Author: Roy Franklin Nichols
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, University of Pennsylvania Press
Genre: Biography
Edition: 2nd ed., completely revised
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
This meticulously researched political biography chronicles the life and presidency of Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth President of the United States, tracing his journey from his New Hampshire roots to the turbulent national stage of the 1850s. Roy Franklin Nichols presents Pierce as a complex and often misunderstood figure, a charming and capable politician whose administration was ultimately overwhelmed by the escalating sectional crisis over slavery. With a scholarly yet accessible tone, the narrative details Pierce's early legal career, his military service in the Mexican-American War, and the tragic personal losses that shadowed his time in the White House. Nichols argues that Pierce's commitment to preserving the Union through compromise, most notably his support of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, paradoxically accelerated the very conflict he sought to prevent. A landmark work in American presidential history, Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills remains an authoritative and sympathetic portrait of a president long dismissed by history.