Tag: Rutherford B. Hayes

• My favorite presidential biographies (so far)

  Ever since reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s excellent Abraham Lincoln biography Team of Rivals years ago, I’ve been fascinated by the lives and times of U.S. presidents. So much so that I made a goal to read a substantive biography of every U.S. president. This goal isn’t motivated by politics. If anything the legislative minutiae, policy…

  Nov 7, 2021

  # Abraham Lincoln, books, history, John Quincy Adams, lists, politics, presidents, review, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt

• Rutherford B. Hazy (In History)

  Marching onward in my quest to read a biography of every U.S. president, I finally made it through Ari Hoogenboom’s Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President. I confess to having held the same vague notions of Hayes that Hoogenboom writes he’s commonly known for: that he won the disputed 1876 presidential election, ending Reconstruction, and that…

  Jun 30, 2013

  # books, history, presidents, review, Rutherford B. Hayes, The Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt, White House