[Abridged] Presidential Histories

23.A.) How Benjamin Harrison won his way to defeat, an interview with Charles Calhoun

November 29, 2021 Kenny Ryan
[Abridged] Presidential Histories
23.A.) How Benjamin Harrison won his way to defeat, an interview with Charles Calhoun
Show Notes

Is it possible to win your way to defeat? Benjamin Harrison and the 51st Congress might say so. After passing almost all the legislation they had campaigned on in 1889, American voters dealt them crippling defeats in 1891 and 1893. What went wrong?

Join me as I interview Charles Calhoun, a retired distinguished professor of History at East Carolina University, a past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the author of Benjamin Harrison, on how Benjamin Harrison and the Republican Party won their way to defeat.


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