The Review
Grover Cleveland: Just Obey the Constitution
A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland, by Troy Senik, New York: Threshold Editions, 2022, 323 pages, hardcover.
When asked after retiring from public life how a man of his limited education had been able to succeed as president, Grover Cleveland explained that the Constitution “is so simple and so strong that all a man has to do is to obey it and do his best and he gets along.”
That sums up the political philosophy of the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, and also of this biography by Troy Senik. It is clear that Senik is greatly sympathetic to Cleveland’s philosophy, which the author describes as “classical liberal.” Cleveland was a man who favored limited government, and that is the theme of this excellent account of the life of a president we could do well to have in the White House once again.
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