The Age of Trump Could Use the Wisdom of John Quincy Adams Benjamin Franklin’s Presence at the Creation The Past Is a Guide — and It Points Toward Freedom Is America 250 Not Really in 2026? A ...
In 1881, Grover Cleveland was a workaholic, 44-year-old bachelor lawyer in Buffalo, N.Y., living in a modest apartment above his firm. His pleasures were fishing, food in copious portions, and beer.
‘CLEVELAND is the noblest man that has filled the presidential chair since Lincoln.’ This verdict of Gladstone’s and the similar judgment of singularly competent men looking from different points of ...
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland, by Troy Senik (Threshold Editions, 384 pp., $32.99) Liberalism does not have much of a heroic reputation these days.