Grover Cleveland often gets categorized as a president of trivial significance. Trivial as in trivia. He is known as the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms, the only president to get ...
In 1881, Grover Cleveland was a workaholic, 44-year-old bachelor lawyer in Buffalo, N.Y., living in a modest apartment above his firm. His pleasures were fishing, food in copious portions, and beer.
‘CLEVELAND is the noblest man that has filled the presidential chair since Lincoln.’ This verdict of Gladstone’s and the similar judgment of singularly competent men looking from different points of ...
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland, by Troy Senik (Threshold Editions, 384 pp., $32.99) Liberalism does not have much of a heroic reputation these days.