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An Honest President: The Life and Presidencies of Grover Cleveland
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $14.95
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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Grover Cleveland is known primarily as the only president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms. But his record as a staunch reformer is equally impressive: from fighting powerful bosses in both political parties and vetoing bills he considered raids on the Treasury to resisting American imperialism and robber barons alike. And when he became embroiled in scandal -- from fathering a child out of wedlock to (legally) evading the Civil War -- he faced his past truthfully and confronted his demons directly.
In graceful and enduring prose, H. Paul Jeffers gives us the first full look at a president whose moral timber and courageous administrations have more to say to today's politicians than perhaps that of any other leader in American history.
Reviews
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-02-21
Summary: "Good, concise biography of an unsung Great President"
Conventional historians generally tend to rate "Great Presidents" based on how much power they grab and exercise. They write from the unspoken assumption that the president's number-one job is being some sort of 'social engineer-in-chief.' Thus presidents who get us into wars, assert novel powers, issue a ton of executive orders, bully the other branches of government, add to the federal bureaucracy, take over various aspects of the economy, and generally stick their nose into all sorts of matters that are not their constitutional purview get the highest marks.
Presidents who exercise restraint, follow the Constitution, and keep us out of war are generally, regardless of how competent they may have been and how much they were appreciated by their constituents at the time, ranked at best as "good." This keeps presidents like Cleveland from getting a fair shake. H. Paul Jeffers' relatively brief biography (my edition was under 350 pages of text) somewhat revises the standard "good-but-not-great" view of Cleveland, though it doesn't go far enough or dig deep enough, as far as I'm concerned.
Perhaps because it was intended for a popular rather than scholarly audience, the book is lighter on primary source material and leans more heavily on previously written biographies than it ought to. Further, I would echo some of the other reviewers' sentiments that the recurring comparisons between Cleveland and Bill Clinton (almost solely based on the fact that Cleveland had a sex scandal come to light in the 1884 campaign) are a bit gratuitous and date the book, which was written in the late-1990s. It would have been okay to mention the parallel briefly in the epilogue or something, but Jeffers harped on it several times throughout the book.
The book is particularly light on Cleveland's second term, and doesn't delve enough into his foreign policy achievements -- such as standing up to a jingoistic Congress against going to war with Spain in his second term, a rarity for a president. Also, Mr. Jeffers could have used a bit of eocnomic analysis to illuminate some of the fiscal and monetary issues of the day. I still have yet to come across a Cleveland biography that I feel is definitive -- perhaps it has yet to be written.
Overall, though, despite its imperfections, the book is on balance more good than bad. On the plus side, the book is very readable and does a good job of explaining and substantiating Cleveland's virtues -- his honesty, work ethic, willingness to fight his own party, and dedication to following the Constitution come through pretty clearly. Cleveland was a man who literally agonized for days pondering an important piece of legislation. In such instances he was particularly concerned with constitutionality and cost, and he would unapologetically veto a bill -- regardless of its popularity -- if it was of questionable constitutionality and/or excessive cost.
Unlike almost all recent presidents, Cleveland believed one of his most important jobs was to be a good steward of the people's tax dollars. One can only wish in vain for such a brave and principled politician as Grover Cleveland in this day and age, when both wings of our one-party system are engaged in a perpetual contest to see which can run up debt faster.
In the final analysis, this is a good book about a GREAT president.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2007-12-04
Summary: "A Lukewarm Biography"
H. Paul Jeffers' biography "An Honest President" of President Grover Cleveland is like getting a Diet Pepsi when you ordered a Regular Pepsi. Jeffers concedes as much in the section entitled "Notes on Sources" when he says "I did not wish to write a book that would pass what the late novelist John O'Hara called 'the heft test,' employed by people who believe a book isn't worth buying, or to be taken seriously unless it is thick and heavy in the hand." That may be true, but in the world of biography, it is difficult to write a biography if you fail the "heft test."
Jeffers' biography is largely derivative of the other (larger) biographies out there on Grover Cleveland including Rexford Tugwell's Grover Cleveland, Robert McElroy's Grover Cleveland: (2 Vols) the Man and the Statesman, and Richard Welch's The Presidencies of Grover Cleveland (American Presidency Series).
Jeffers' biography also suffers from interspersed comparisons to Bill Clinton. It is not that such comparisons are not necessarily warranted it is that they detract from the text. Comparisons between Clinton and Cleveland could have been accomplished in an epilogue or legacy chapter. By interspersing the comparisons throughout the text, Jeffers descends to taking potshots at Clinton.
If there is anything that rescues "An Honest President" it is the narration by Raymond Todd. Todd's voice is clear and resonant. Todd provides distinct intonations to handle the multiple speakers that crop up in Jeffers' text.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2005-04-01
Summary: "Interesting, but..."
Please keep in mind that I think three stars means "Okay" and that "okay" isn't a bad thing.
I didn't know anything about Grover Cleveland. After reading this book, I found that I liked him far more than most Presidents. However, I wish that the book went into greater depth or analyzed his life a bit deeper.
The author makes various comparisons between Cleveland's sexual behaviors to those of Clinton's, which is fine. But I would have liked to have had other comparisons as well.
This is an interesting book and it left me wanting to know more about its subject.
Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2004-01-31
Summary: "Painless Backgrounder"
Jeffers provides a painless background on one of the least-remembered Presidents for those who need to fill in the blank spots of their US history timelines. The writing is fluent and the narrative moves quickly. But the book is not for scholars. Important issues of the times, including the Financial Panic of 1893, the free-silver movement, Hawaii and the imperialist impulse, and the growth of organized labor are covered in a few passages or pages. I especially found the discussion of Cleveland's racial attitudes and civil rights policies insufficient; for a President governing during the implementation of Jim Crow, more than a few paragraphs about the issue were warranted. For detailed discussions of those important historical issues, the reader will have to go to more specialized sources.
Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2003-11-03
Summary: "Too Reverential"
Something is missing from this picture -- a two-time president, three-time presidential nominee and former New York governor who "never, ever" trimmed his sails for expediency, was "always" honest and consistently stuck to his convictions no matter the political cost? Not credible. To read this book one would think that Grover Cleveland was literally the second coming. The portrait is overly worshipful, completely one-sided, and ultimately unpersuasive. In particular, attempts at comparison to Bill Clinton and "Zippergate" (as the author calls it) fall totally flat and are completely gratuitous. There is little real analysis here, and too much regurgitation of what prior biographers have written.
I don't doubt that Cleveland was a unique politician, a man well-positioned in his time to take advantage of the public's increasing distaste for the spoils system and the fractional and petty squabbles that marked the Republican party from 1868-84 (Stalwarts vs. Half Breeds, Conkling vs. Blaine, Garfield vs. Conkling, etc). The early chapters on Cleveland's meteoric rise from an obscure sheriff to mayor of Buffalo to governor of New York to president in a few short years are fairly interesting. But Cleveland the man, particularly during his two presidential terms, comes across as a wooden, cardboard figure; no real flavor or insight into his personality and character emerges. Some biographies are too heavy on psycho-babble, maybe this book could have used some of that.