Conservative Conversations with ISI

Troy Senik on the Presidency of Grover Cleveland, Classical Liberalism, and 19th Century Political Culture

October 11, 2022 Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Conservative Conversations with ISI
Troy Senik on the Presidency of Grover Cleveland, Classical Liberalism, and 19th Century Political Culture
Show Notes

In this episode:

  • Troy Senik joins the podcast to talk about President Grover Cleveland’s life and unlikely path to the presidency
  • the principled character of Cleveland, and how his sense of honesty was at the center of this political priorities as a reform-minded politician during the Gilded Age
  • the political and cultural context in which Cleveland rose to prominence, and how his second term shaped a political realignment that saw his classical liberal politics exit politics until the 1970s


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