Benjamin Harrison A President at the Crossroads

He was a man living in two worlds. He witnessed both the extremes of wealth and poverty in the Gilded Age and the unbridled promise of the Modern Era. He saw the rise of prairie populism and a country’s transformation from rural isolationism to international power. He dreamed of a world where men shared the same civil rights regardless of color, but was challenged at every pass. Above all else, Benjamin Harrison was America’s Hoosier President, raising a family in the country’s heartland in Indianapolis..

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