Ari hoogenboom biography of rory
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My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies
&#;Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior & President&#; is Ari Hoogenboom&#;s single-volume biography of our nineteenth president.
Ari hoogenboom biography of rory
Hoogenboom is professor emeritus at the City University of New York &#; Brooklyn College and a well-known scholar of the Gilded Age.
Hoogenboom&#;s book was the first comprehensive biography of Hayes following Harry Barnard&#;s &#;Rutherford B.
Hayes: And His America.&#; This modern examination of Hayes&#;s life is well-researched, competently argued, appropriately detailed and extremely thorough.
Unapologetically sympathetic to Hayes, Hoogenboom uses the book&#;s opening pages to make the case for Hayes as a more noble man &#; and far more successful politician &#; than history recalls.
He amplifies his favorable opinion in the book&#;s closing chapters where his subject&#;s most serious mistake is alleged to have been&#;failing to run for a second term. The book&#;s core, however, follows a &#;just-