Rutherford
B. Hayes : Warrior and President
by Ari Hoogenboom
Book Description Who was the real Rutherford B. Hayes? Was he
a great or inconsequential president? How did his early life and career
shape his later years? How did his triumphs and failures alter our history?
And why should we care? Ari Hoogenboom's masterful life of Hayes definitively
answers those questions and shows why our nineteenth president deserves
far greater recognition than he's received in the past.
The first biography of Hayes in nearly fifty years, Hoogenboom's book
recreates the rapidly changing world of Victorian America as experienced
by one of its most reflective and perceptive figures. The Hayes that emerges
is a much more progressive and far-sighted leader than previously suggested.
He was, Hoogenboom argues, neither a Southern sympathizer nor an exemplar
of the "Greedy Gilded Age." Rather, he was a devout, pragmatic champion
of equal rights.
Hayes's colorful life was rooted in his frontier experiences in Ohio
and galvanized on Civil War battlefields, where he survived five wounds
and was ultimately promoted to major general. No other president was under
fire on the front lines as much as Hayes.
Hayes's image as president (1877-1881), however, has not been quite
so shining. He has been blamed for Reconstruction's failure and damned
for an apparent bargain that guaranteed his election in exchange for withdrawing
military support of Republican governments in the South. He has also been
criticized for championing the gold standard, for breaking the Great Strike
of 1877, for inconsistent support of civil-service reform, and for being
an ineffectual politician.
Hoogenboom contends that these evaluations are largely false. Previous
scholars, he says, have failed to appreciate Hayes's limited options and
have misrepresented his actions in their depictions of an overly cautious,
nonvisionary president. In fact, he was strikingly modern in his efforts
to enlarge the power of the office, which he used as his own bully pulpit
to rouse public support for his goals.
Chief among these goals, Hoogenboom shows, was equality for all Americans.
Throughout his presidency and long afterwards, Hayes worked steadfastly
for reforms that would encourage economic opportunity, distribute wealth
more equitably, diminish the conflict between capital and labor, and ultimately
enable African-Americans to achieve political equality. Although he fell
far short of his ideals, his unwavering commitment deserves our attention
and respect.
Hardcover - 626 pages (January 1995)
Univ Pr of Kansas; ISBN: 0700606416
The
Betrayal of the Negro : From Rutherford Hayes to Woodrow Wilson
by Rayford Whittingham Logan, Eric Foner (Introduction)
Paperback - 459 pages (April 1997)
Da Capo Pr; ISBN: 0306807580
Rutherford
B. Hayes : And His America
by Harry Barnard
Hardcover (December 1994)
Amer Political Biography; ISBN: 0945707053
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Hayes
of the Twenty-Third : The Civil War Volunteer Officer
by T. Harry Williams
Paperback Reprint edition (May 1994)
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803297610
Rutherford
B. Hayes : Nineteenth President of the United States
(Encyclopedia of Presidents)
by Zachary Kent
Reading level: Ages 9-12
School & Library Binding - 100 pages (May 1989)
Children's Press; ISBN: 0516013653
Life
of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (2 Volumes) (BCL1 - U.S. History)
by Charles R. Williams
Library Binding
Publisher: Reprint Services Corp; ; (January 1914)
ISBN: 0781262070
Rutherford
B. Hayes
by Hans Trefousse (Author), Arthur Jr. Schlesinger (Editor)
(Hardcover)
Rutherford
B. Hayes: One of the Good Colonels
by Ari Hoogenboom
(Hardcover - March 2000)
Rutherford
B. Hayes: Our Nineteenth President (Our Presidents)
by Sandra Francis (School & Library Binding - January 2002)
Rutherford
B. Hayes: Citizen, Soldier, President
by Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
(CD-ROM)
Teach the Freeman : The Correspondence of Rutherford B. Hayes and
the Slater Fund for Negro Education 1881 - 1887
by R.B. Hayes
Hardcover (June 1959)
Periodicals Service Co; ISBN: 0527389307
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The Presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes.
by Kenneth E. Davison
Hardcover Reprint edition (January 1973)
Greenwood Publishing Group; ISBN: 0837162750
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