Zachary Taylor : Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest by K. Jack Bauer (1994, Hardcover)

American Political Biography

0945707088

9780945707080

392324

1994

Presidents & Heads of State

Zachary Taylor : Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest

347 Pages

English

Yes

Biography & Autobiography

K. Jack Bauer

Signature Ser.

Hardcover

94-071615

19

973.6/3/0924 B

Reprint,Unabridged edition

Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor 'was and remains an enigma.' He was a southerner who espoused many antisouthern causes, an aristocrat with a strong feeling for the common man, an energetic yet cautious and conservative soldier. Not an intellectual, Taylor showed little curiosity about the world around him. In this biography--the most comprehensive since Holman Hamilton's two-volume work published forty years ago--Bauer offers a fresh appraisal of Taylor's life and suggests that Taylor may have been neither so simple nor so nonpolitical as many historians have believed.