Grover Cleveland: The President Who Meant What He Said
As with Cleveland’s improbable return to office, the biographer hopes his book will allow another Grover Cleveland to arise and redeem with his nobility the very cause of politics.
‘A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland’
By Troy Senik
Threshold Editions, 384 pages
The president for eight years between 1884 and 1896, Grover Cleveland said what he meant and meant what he said. His rapid ascent to the presidency following time as mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York occurred because of his iron-minded insistence on honesty.
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