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Charles W. Calhoun

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February 24, 1948

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Charles W. Calhoun is an American historian and professor at East Carolina University. He holds a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Columbia University. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and resides in Greenville, North Carolina.

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	Benjamin Harrison (The American Presidents, #23) by Charles W. Calhoun, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 2,011 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America by Charles W. Calhoun (Editor), Eric Arnesen (Contributor), Robert G. Barrows (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: The Transformation of Politics and Governance in the Gilded Age 3.50 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant (American Presidency Series) 4.46 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Minority Victory: Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gilded Age: Essays on the Origins of Modern America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction by Charles W. Calhoun (Editor), Neal Salisbury (Contributor), Marilyn Westerkamp (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gilded Age Cato: The Life of Walter Q. Gresham really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Human Tradition in America from 1865 to the Present 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All told, the Fifty-first Congress passed 531 public laws, representing an unprecedented level of legislative accomplishment unequaled until Theodore Roosevelt’s second term. After the final adjournment on March 3, the historian and Republican congressman Henry Cabot Lodge wrote, “No Congress in peace time since the first has passed so many great & important measures of lasting value to the people.”
― Charles W. Calhoun, Benjamin Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 23rd President, 1889-1893

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“Throughout his career as a soldier, lawyer, and public servant, Harrison had felt a keen sense of personal responsibility for whatever work he engaged to do. He treated his presidential duties no differently. Although he could delegate work, he could not relinquish the conviction that the country would hold him ultimately accountable for his administration’s actions. He was, therefore, a hands-on president.”
― Charles W. Calhoun, Benjamin Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 23rd President, 1889-1893

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“Embracing government activism, he asserted that the public benefit fully justified the government “in making expenditures in the direction that no private enterprise could afford to go.”
― Charles W. Calhoun, Benjamin Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 23rd President, 1889-1893

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