An Honest President by H.P.Jeffers

 ★★★¼

GENRE: History
SUBJECT: Biography
Setting: NY, Washington, DC
CHARACTERS: Geover Cleveland, Frances Cleveland, David Lamont
DATE READ: December 27 - January 6
NO. OF PAGES: 400
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?:   yes, my shelves

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Most people if asked about Grover Cleveland will either say that he was the only man elected in non-consecutive terms or that he was married in the White House or the father of Baby Ruth.  But what  I found in reading the biography was a man who "possessed honesty, courage, firmness, independence and common sense".  Cleveland felt that "those who governed understood that they were servants, not masters, and  that public office is a public trust".

Grover Cleveland, a man of political courage, was a defender of the Monroe Doctrine, champion of the Gold Standard and Civil Service Reform. 

All in all, a man that held honesty as the most important trait of any man even if it threatened his political popularity.