Grover Cleveland

the long version

"Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character is the first comprehensive study of our twenty-second and twenty-fourth president in nearly seventy years. The only Democrat elected to the presidency between the Civil War and World War I, he rose to political prominence through the ranks of mayor of Buffalo and governor of New York before his election to this nation's highest office.". "Alyn Brodsky's work follows Grover Cleveland through his early life in upstate New York, his career as a trial lawyer, mayor, and governor through to his first and second presidencies."--BOOK JACKET.