
Episode 1: Hello Grover Cleveland!
The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast
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Grover Cleveland Is More Famous Than Rutherford B. Hayes
I wanted to write a book about Grover Cleveland who has not been written about much for the last several decades I mean there was one really good and kind of authoritative book on Grover Cleveland and it's about 90 years old. He just feels so much more antique that you know even relative to a figure like Coolidge he gets a lot less exposure than Calvin Coolidge. His career is in many ways a rebuke to political cynicism he moves up very very quickly if you find Grover Cleveland in the year 1881 which is the year that he turns 44 years old. If we were to tick through that list virtually everyone on it is somebody who is a household name even if you're not a
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