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Zachary Taylor : The American Presidents Series: the 12th President, 1849-1850 by John S. D. Eisenhower (2008, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHolt & Company, Henry

ISBN-100805082379

ISBN-139780805082371

eBay Product ID (ePID)108158952

Product Key Features

Book TitleZachary Taylor : the American Presidents Series: the 12th President, 1849-1850

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2008

TopicUnited States / 19th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, Military

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorJohn S. D. Eisenhower

Book SeriesThe American Presidents Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight13.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2007-046073

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal973.6/3092 B

SynopsisThe rough-hewn general who rose to the nation's highest office, and whose presidency witnessed the first political skirmishes that would lead to the Civil War Zachary Taylor was a soldier's soldier, a man who lived up to his nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." Having risen through the ranks of the U.S. Army, he achieved his greatest success in the Mexican War, propelling him to the nation's highest office in the election of 1848. He was the first man to have been elected president without having held a lower political office. John S. D. Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. The political storm reached a crescendo in 1849, when California, newly populated after the Gold Rush, applied for statehood with an anti- slavery constitution, an event that upset the delicate balance of slave and free states and pushed both sides to the brink. As the acrimonious debate intensified, Taylor stood his ground in favor of California's admission--despite being a slaveholder himself--but in July 1850 he unexpectedly took ill, and within a week he was dead. His truncated presidency had exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart., Eisenhower, the son of another soldier-president, shows how Zachary Taylor rose to the presidency, where he confronted the most contentious political issue of his age: slavery. His truncated presidency exposed the fateful rift that would soon tear the country apart.

LC Classification NumberE422.E57 2008