Rutherford b hayes biography book

Hayes: Warrior & President” by Ari Hoogenboom.

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th president of the United States, serving from to A staunch abolitionist from Ohio, he was also a brevet major general for the Union army during the American Civil War. As an attorney in Ohio, Hayes.

The first biography of Hayes in nearly fifty years, Hoogenboom's book recreates the rapidly changing world of Victorian America.

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.

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The first biography of Hayes in nearly fifty years, Hoogenboom's book recreates the rapidly changing world of Victorian America..

Rutherford B. Hayes

"We get to know the public man, best of the Gilded Age Republican presidents and among the most service-minded of ex-presidents.

And it is a good visit."—Reviews in American History

"This thorough, insightful, and fair-minded book earns for Hayes the enhanced reputation that is his due."—Civil War History

"Hayes, the man and the president, receives a sympathetic but balanced portrait in this superb addition to the growing literature reevaluating political leaders of the Gilded Age."—Journal of American History

"Gracefully written, lucidly organized deeply researched, and insightfully perceptive, the book is a model biography of an American President."—Illinois Historical Journal

"Based on exhaustive research in the Hayes Presidential Center and numerous collateral collections.

. . the definitive treatment of the subject."—Journal of Southern History

"Hoogenboom’s writing is pleasurably detailed without