Conservative Conversations with ISI
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Conservative Conversations with ISI
Troy Senik on the Presidency of Grover Cleveland, Classical Liberalism, and 19th Century Political Culture
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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
Books Mentioned:
- A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbably Presidency of Grover Cleveland by Troy Senik
- Coolidge by Amity Shlaes
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