Franklin Pierce by Michael F. Holt, Sean Wilentz, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

154 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history reflective slow-paced
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The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic conve...

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