PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP: 2/8: A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency o1 Grover Cleveland Hardcover – by Troy Senik (Author)
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🗓️ 11 December 2023
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Grover Cleveland’s political career—a dizzying journey that saw him rise from obscure lawyer to president of the United States in just three years—was marked by contradictions. A politician of uncharacteristic honesty and principle, he was nevertheless dogged by secrets from his personal life. A believer in limited government, he pushed presidential power to its limits to combat a crippling depression, suppress labor unrest, and resist the forces of American imperialism. A headstrong executive who alienated Congress, political bosses, and even his own party, his stubbornness nevertheless became the key to his political appeal. The most successful Democratic politician of his era, he came to be remembered most fondly by Republicans
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| 0:47.1 | I'm John Bachelors with Troy Senec, a man of iron is Troy's new book The Turbulent Life and Improvable Presidency of Grover Cleveland. |
| 0:51.5 | Born 1837, a preacher's kid. Cleveland. Princeton Seminary graduate, his mother Anne, a German Quaker. He grows up working hard, |
| 1:05.8 | self-discipline, all of the templates associated with the Protestant Reformation. |
| 1:13.0 | At the same time, his family meets some hard times. |
| 1:18.0 | His father doesn't earn very much money and he travels from roost to roost his health is broken at one point and the money has to be cut back. |
| 1:28.4 | Early on, Grover Cleveland had a sense of duty to his family, to his mother, to his father, to his siblings. |
| 1:35.2 | Was that true for the whole family with these all hard-working young people? |
| 1:41.0 | To the extent that we have records that does seem to be the case and it's a big family. |
| 1:44.6 | Cleveland is the middle of nine children. So even Cleveland himself, |
| 1:49.6 | interestingly enough, as a president of the United States, we have a pretty thin record of what his childhood |
| 1:56.2 | was like and we see as you suggest these glimpses of this deep sense of duty that's in him. But it was a it was a pretty austere, pretty religious |
| 2:07.7 | upbringing and they all seemed to have had this deep work ethic, this deep work ethic, |
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