★★¾
GENRE: History
SUBJECT: Biography
Setting: Indiana, Washington,DC
CHARACTERS: Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Franklin
DATE READ: January 7 - January 7
NO. OF PAGES: 102
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?: no, public library
PLOT:....................................................................3.00
CHARACTERIZATION:.......................................2.50
TOPICS: ...............................................................3.00
STYLE:..................................................................3.00
ORIGINALITY:.......................................................2.50
ADDICTIVENESS:..............................................3.00
OWNERSHIP:......................................................2.50
Threshold Quality.................................................2.50
Average..............................................................................................2.75
Most people if asked about Benjamin Harrison will either say that he was the man elected in between the non-consecutive terms of Grover Cleveland or that he was the grandson of William Henry Harrison, the 9th President and in this short biography that's about it. He appears to have been elected on name recognition and his war record rather than anything he stood for or had done.
After reading about a man with political courage as Grover Cleveland, it is hard to realize that the nation switched to this man who seemed to have no mental fortitude at all. No wonder they switched back at their first opportunity.
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