The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in DemocracyThis work discusses how politics, democracy, and the presidency evolved in the United States from 1789 to 1923. |
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... Ohio Valley increased , for the mountains no longer isolated that huge district from the out- side world . South of the Ohio River , the States of Kentucky and Tennessee had entered the Union while Washington was still President ; and ...
... Ohio Valley increased , for the mountains no longer isolated that huge district from the out- side world . South of the Ohio River , the States of Kentucky and Tennessee had entered the Union while Washington was still President ; and ...
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... Ohio farmer , and the descendant of a family that had emigrated from Scotland to New England in the middle of the seventeenth century . He was born in 1822 , and re- ceived a good schooling , first in Ohio and later in the East . After ...
... Ohio farmer , and the descendant of a family that had emigrated from Scotland to New England in the middle of the seventeenth century . He was born in 1822 , and re- ceived a good schooling , first in Ohio and later in the East . After ...
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... Ohio . The last point was important . Grant , Hayes , Garfield , Harrison , McKinley , Taft - most of the Republican Presidents had come from Ohio . It is not , unhappily , that only Ohio can produce the typical President ; it is simply ...
... Ohio . The last point was important . Grant , Hayes , Garfield , Harrison , McKinley , Taft - most of the Republican Presidents had come from Ohio . It is not , unhappily , that only Ohio can produce the typical President ; it is simply ...
Contents
WASHINGTON | 3 |
JOHN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON | 32 |
MADISON MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 72 |
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