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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 29, nos. 1-2; Original Published by: Columbia University in 1908 in 546 pages; Subjects: New Hampshire; History / United States / State & Local / General; History / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic; History / United States / State & Local / New England; Political Science / General; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science / Political Process / General; Political Science / Government / State & Provincial; Political Science / Government / General; Travel / United States / Northeast / New England; ... Read more

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During the Age of Jackson, New Hampshire was the one New England state that was consistently and firmly Democratic. In this book, Donald Cole points out the significant influence of New Hampshire Democrats on the national Jacksonian movement – an influence far out of proportion to the size of the state. Historians of the "consensus" school have theorized that Jacksonian Democracybore little resemblance to Jeffersonian Republicanism, that Democrats differed little from their political opponents, and that issues were of no great significance in party politics.

Mr. Cole differs sharply with these views.Analyzing the careers of Isaac Hill and Levi Woodbury, together the nucleus of the New Hampshire Jacksonian movement, he traces the continuous development of issues to show that in New Hampshire the Democratic Party of 1830 descended directly from the Republican Party of 1800. The author makes use of ample statistical evidence and traditional secondary sources to show that Jacksonian Democracy in New Hampshire appealed particularly to the common man. Radically different socioeconomic groups supported the two parties in the election of 1832. Democrats came from the poor, hilly, remote farming villages, while National Republicans inhabited the larger, more accessible and more prosperous communities.

Donald B. Cole was Instructor in History, The Phillips Exeter Academy. He is the author of Handbook of American History, The Presidency of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren and the American Political System. ... Read more

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In this valuable study, Lex Renda uses retrospective voting theory - a quantitative political science model for assessing political allegiances - to explore the connections between voters' judgments and public policy in New Hampshire before, during, and after the Civil War. According to this theory, voters base their judgments and party loyalty not on proposals for future policy initiatives but on their assessment of a candidate or party's performance. Renda's research focuses primarily on the correspondence of nineteenth-century New Hampshire politicians, editorials in the state's newspapers, and records of state legislative sessions. He analyzes the politicians' strategies, the appeals they made to voters, the social bases of electoral alignments, and the partisan dimensions of legislative behavior. His book integrates these elements and provides a history of the nexus between what people expected from government during the so-called party period and how they judged its effectiveness in achieving promised results. Renda's approach brings into focus the rationality of nineteenth-century voters, as well as the role of past policy making in influencing election outcomes. ... Read more

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Outstanding statistical analysis
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Biography of Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire native and 14th president of the United States. Volume covers Pierce to the night of his inauguration. ... Read more

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Great and thorough review of Frankling Pierce's lfie
Wallner provides an excellent biography on the life of Franklin Peirce however this book does not include his time as president.It provides an excellent overview on how Pierce attained the presidency and his turbulent if unknown political career came to fruition.The book clearly assesses his role in helping to shape many political outcomes in New Hampshire and focuses a little on his time in the congress. What is truly impressive about Pierce and his attainment of the presidency is that he does not spend his entire life in public office. In fact he is out of office and serving mores a party leader than anything else for much of the time.As the author points out he is often in the right place at the right time.For those who want to learn a little more about Pierce the man this is a great place to start. Wallner's second book will take the reader into the presidency.

Ante-bellum Presidency
Franklin Pierce is one of the most obscure presidents in our history.Few history classes deal with his politics, and the average history student would not know even a single policy he brought to light.In fact, his reputation is widely thought to be as a man with a terrible temper, made worse by his drinking.

The author, Peter Wallner, looks to debunk many of these myths in the first serious biography of Pierce in almost 75 years.

I would have to say that I learned much about the man and the times in reading this biography, although it was told in a dry narrative.Ante-bellum politics were a far different world than exists today, as the Republican party was in its infancy, and the Whigs were still a major force.Pierce was a die-hard Democrat, with the feeling being that he really believed what he was, and his principles were squarely with the people.

He was a man of rock hard principle, with the rare combination of really being able to connect in a human way with the common man.

But life in the mid-1800's was forbidding, and Pierce suffered through immense personal tragedy, even shortly before he moved into the White House.

My complaint is that this book takes us only from his birth to inauguration night.There is a second volume.

Pierce did not have the dramatic presidency of an FDR, the incredible political career of an LBJ, or the precipitous fall of a Richard Nixon.There is no reason to cut his life into two volumes, and make a reader shell out $30- for each.

Pierce belongs in a historical context, with the other Presidents, but this book was "only" 258 pages of reading, and his White House career and the rest of his life could have easily fit in one book.

That said, there are few outlets to learn of his life and presidential career, and this would seem to be a pretty worthwhile venue.

President Pierce - an honest man enduring personal and political tragedy
For those who have interest in studying tough, stong, capable men who achieve our highest office but yet fail toachieve anticipated heights of power and glory, this brief, taut biography gives insights into a northeastern political power who harbors quiet sentiments for the South's "peculiar institution" and who fails due to the dichotomy of constituent demands.

An interesting human drama played against a transitioning political background.

The Making of President Pierce
It has been nigh on to 100 years since there was a complete biography of Franklin Pierce published and in that time there have been many changes in the way historians look at things. Revisionism and Counter-Revisionism and all sorts of isms have swept through the historical community but until now no one has thought to take another look at Franklin Pierce. Back in my college days I sat through classes during which the professors only mentioned Pierce in a negative light and in one class I had as a textbook a book that was very hard on Pierce and the notion that he was a horrible president and person just never seemed to be challenged. Finally in this book those notions are beginning to be challenged and in a forceful and thought provoking way.

The basis for most of the Pierce bashing comes from the idea that he was not only pro Southern but also pro-slavery and neither could be farther from the truth. Of course this book doesn't deal with his presidency or the Civil War but just with his life up until his first night in the White House but the author proves quite satisfactorily that Pierce only supported the South in matters where he believed that the Constitution was on their side and that he deplored slavery but felt that it was protected by the Constitution and to Pierce nothing was more sacred than the Constitution. The Constitution in Pierce's mind was the only thing that stood between the common man and absolute domination of the country by the rich and powerful and he wasn't willing to sacrifice that for any cause no matter how noble.

The author also does an excellent job of explaining Pierce's dislike for abolitionists above and beyond the fact that he felt that they were a threat to the Union. Pierce spent most of his life fighting for the common man and especially for religious liberty including a court case where he put his popularity on the line to defend the Shaker sect from persecution. Many of the people who sought to persecute the Shakers were abolitionists and also many abolitionists were violently anti-Catholic and Pierce began to see most abolitionists as religious bigots, which in fact many of them were. In Pierce's mind racial bigotry and religious bigotry were equally noxious and he came to detest all abolitionists because of their association with this intolerant attitude. To Pierce those who chose to lie down with dogs most certainly got up with fleas.

Mr. Wallner has done an excellent job with this book and although he has to some extent fallen into the biographer's trap of becoming too enamored by his subject he has at least backed up all of his ascertains with good research. This is a well-written and very enjoyable book that gives the reader a good look at Franklin Pierce's pre-presidential life both private and public. A lot of President Pierce's policies may look bad in hindsight but thanks to Mr. Wallner one can easily see where his core beliefs came from. Any student of the presidency will want to pick up this book as will any Civil War buff but just keep in mind that while history has not been kind to Pierce Mr. Wallner may have been a bit too kind to him.I very much look forward to volume two.

Long overdue exploration of a political mystery.
For years Franklin Pierce has been ill-served by the nation's historians, nearly all of whom repeat the same things about him--that he was an alcoholic, a coward in the Mexican-American war, pro-slavery and one of the reasons why this country had a Civil War.

Unfortunetely such judgements are basedly largely on biased accounts written decades ago, such as Allen Nevin's "Ordeal of the Union," anenormously slanted work on the events leading up to the Civil War; thus repeating for succeeding generations the same tired old myths without bothering to take a new look at where those myths originated.

In recent years the most important attack on Pierce came in the form of an essay written by William W. Freehling, who admits he borrowed from Nevin, in a guide called "The Presidents: A Reference History." In it, Freehling delivers what could only be described as a personal attack on the 14th president, calling him, among other things, "an inconsequential charmer," a "pleasant nonentity," and "a non-actor clinging to more powerful statemen's actions as if they were his own."

Freehling's very brief scholarship on Pierce's years after the White House are the most disturbing and incorrect. He claims, without providing any documentary evidence, that Pierce sank "deeply into an alcoholic haze," and died in 1869 "almost unnoticed, once again almost unknown."

In fact, Pierce's death was a day of national mourning called for by President Ulysses S. Grant (even the U.S. Supreme Court suspended activities), with his controversial life and career vigorously debated and amply covered by the nation's most important newspapers: The New York Times, the New York Herald, the New York Tribune and the Washigton Star, among others.

I am the author of a book called "The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce: the Story of a President and the Civil War," which mostly focuses on Pierce's activities as an ex-president during the Civil War years, when he fought against President Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus and urged the government to enter into negotiations with the Confederacy.

Far from sinking into an alcoholic haze, Pierce remained remarkably active and vigorous in retirement, engaged in contemporary debate, and compiling a record of political participation that is perhaps only equalled by Harry Truman in the decade or so after he left the White House in 1953.

For a much larger look at Pierce and his complex rise to the top during his New Hampshire years, Peter Wallner's book is a welcome addition. Unlike Freehling and others, Wallner has actually gone through the Pierce papers (the vast majority of which are available in the archives of the New Hampshire Historical Collection and through the Library of Congress' presidential papers microfilm series).

The end result is a work of solid scholarship that in no way serves to apologize for anything that Pierce does, but effectively dismantles the "non-entity" noose that others have tried to hang him with. Wallner copiously explores every aspect of Pierce's career leading up to his landslide election in 1852, and the result is a profile of a politician who was remarkably good at what he did.

Incidentally, Wallner finally puts to rest the idea that Pierce was plucked from hinterland obscurity when delegates to the Democratic convention in 1852 named him as their presidential nominee. In fact, Pierce angled for months behind the scenes to get the nod, and adriotly figured that if the other, more well-known candidates cancelled themselves out, he would have a real shot at being nominated in a later ballot.

Pierce's cunning and guile in just that contest alone, as amply demonstrated by Wallner, showed that he was actually an astute and capable political strategist.

What Wallner will tell us about Pierce as president, and whatever other myths he may effectively demolish, can only be imagined. His style is quiet and respectful, slowly building a case that casts historians like Freehling, who have appraoched the Pierce presidency a bit too breezily, in an unfavorble light.

Surely the second volume of Wallner's biography of Pierce will effectively (if the first volume has not already done so) establish him as the preeminent Pierce scholar of our time, doing for the 14th president what Arthur Schlesinger did for FDR.

Garry Boulard, Albuquerque, New Mexico.



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