Top 10 Best "William Henry Harrison" Books

John Tyler (The American Presidents Series

Gary May
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Sean Wilentz

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Mr. Jefferson's Hammer

Robert M. Owens

William Henry Harrison

Mr. Jefferson's Hammer

Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison's career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest.

Owens traces Harrison's political career as secretary of the Northwest Territory, territorial delegate to Congress, and governor of Indiana Territory, as well as his military leadership and involvement with Indian relations. Thomas Jefferson, who was president during the first decade of the nineteenth century, found in Harrison the ideal agent to carry out his administration's ruthless campaign to extinguish Indian land titles.

To this day, we live with the echoes of Harrison's proclamations, the boundaries set by his treaties, and the ramifications of his actions. Mr. Jeffer...

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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 4, part 1

James D. (James Daniel) Richardson

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John Tyler, the Accidental President

Edward P. Crapol

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William Henry Harrison

Gail Collins
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Sean Wilentz

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William Henry Harrison

Howard S. Peckham
Cathy Morrison

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Presidencies of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler (American Presidency Series)

Norma Lois Peterson

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William Henry Harrison

Ann Graham Gaines

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William Henry Harrison

Mike Venezia

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Goodbye, Old Tippecanoe

Keith W. Norris

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Millard Fillmore

The oddly named president whose shortsightedness and stubbornness fractured the nation and sowed the seeds of civil war

In the summer of 1850, America was at a terrible crossroads. Congress was in an uproar over slavery, and it was not clear if a compromise could be found. In the midst of the debate, President Zachary Taylor suddenly took ill and died. The presidency, and the crisis, now fell to the little-known vice president from upstate New York.

In this eye-opening biography, the legal scholar and historian Paul Finkelman reveals how Millard Fillmore's response to the crisis he inherited set the country on a dangerous path that led to the Civil War. He shows how Fillmore stubbornly catered to the South, alienating his fellow Northerners and creating a fatal rift in the Whig Party, which would soon disappear from American politics—as would Fillmore himself, after failing to regain the White House under the banner of the anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic "Know Nothing" Party.

Though Fillmore did have an eye toward the future, di...

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Millard Fillmore

Paul Finkelman
Arthur M. Schlesinger
Sean Wilentz

William Henry Harrison

Old Tippecanoe

Freeman Cleaves

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