![]() ![]() “If ever a nation made a valiant attempt to commit suicide, the United States did in the year of 1920.” However, economic mores were different in the early 20th century. ![]() “Grant had not the faintest conception of what a president should do… gazed with the mind of a child at the affairs of state, blinked uncomprehendingly, and turned them over to his friends to be kicked around.” Zachary Taylor’s ignorance and inexperience was largely similar, although his 1848 (mercifully short-lived) administration was less corrupt.Īnother election in which voters chose the wrong man– resulting in an egregiously dishonest government– was that of Republican president Warren G. ![]() ![]() Grant, Republican, hero of the American Civil War the General’s administration had been mired in nepotism, cronyism and corruption. In 1872, Horace Greeley, newspaper publisher, tried to convince voters to nix a second term for Ulysses S. This book documents 23 specific losing candidates in 45 American Presidential races spanning 166 years, from the early 1800’s to the early 1960’s. The Book of the week is “They Also Ran” by Irving Stone, originally published in 1943 updated in 1966. ![]()
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