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Worst. President. Ever. : James Buchanan, the POTUS rating game, and the legacy of the least of the lesser presidents

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Author: Strauss, Robert,

Date of Publication: 2016.

Call Number: 923.173 B918str

Responsibility: Robert Strauss.

ISBN: 9781493024834; 1493024833

Author: Strauss, Robert,

Place of Publication: Guilford, Connecticut

Publisher: Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield,

Date of Publication: 2016.

Physical Description: xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introducing the worst. President. Ever -- The Young Buck -- Up from Lancaster -- The man who would be president, again and again -- The election of 1856: the most consequential in American history -- The worst presidency begins -- The middle Buchanan presidency: hardly better -- Mr. Buchanan's War -- The legacy of the least of the lesser presidents.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Presidents - United States - Biography.; Politics and government.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.; United States.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918str

Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st

Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Place of Publication: Washington, [D.C.]

Publisher: George W. Bowman, printer,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: v. ; 23 cm.

Series: 36th Congress. 1st session. Senate Ex. Doc ; no. 2

Notes: Library has Vol. 1 only.

Contents: v. 1. Annual message of the President ; Report of the Secretary of the Interior ; Report of the Secretary of War ; Report of the Secretary of the Navy ; Report of the Postmaster-General -- v. 2. Report of the Secretary of War --

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Presidents - United States - Messages.; Political science.; Presidents.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861 - Sources.; United States - History - 1849-1877 - Sources.; United States.; History.; Sources.

Additional Corporate Author: United States. Department of the Interior.; United States. War Department.; United States. Navy Department.; United States. Postmaster General.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st

The worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens : place, personality, and politics in the Civil War era

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Date of Publication: [2019]

Call Number: 973.68 B619

Responsibility: edited by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller, and John W. Quist.

ISBN: 9780807170816 (cloth : alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Baton Rouge

Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,

Date of Publication: [2019]

Physical Description: xiv, 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Series: Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction : possessing the power : the role of force in James Buchanan's Caribbean policy / Amy S. Greenberg -- The bachelor's mess : James Buchanan and the domestic politics of doughfacery in Jacksonian America / Thomas J. Balcerski -- Stephen A. Douglas, free-soiler : a counterfactual analysis of party reformation in the 1850s / Douglas R. Egerton -- "General Jackson is dead" : dissecting a popular anecdote of nineteenth-century party leadership / Matthew Pinsker -- "Buck all over" : James Buchanan and a trail of broken relationships / William P. MacKinnon -- Slavery and the breakup of the Democratic Party in the North : a battle of ideas and organization / Frank Towers -- Friends and outliers : Varina Davis, James Buchanan, and gender relations in Antebellum Washington / Joan E. Cashin -- "Like the baseless fabric of a vision" : Thaddeus Stevens and confiscation reconsidered / John David Smith -- "Eastern and Western empire" : Thaddeus Stevens and the greater Reconstruction / Michael Green -- A conversation with Bruce Levine and James Oakes : moderated by Randall M. Miller.

Summary: "The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery debate divided his peers and the political system. Thaddeus Stevens, meanwhile, as Whig turned Republican, invested in the federal government to encourage economic development and social reform, especially antislavery and Republican Reconstruction"--

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Political and social views.; Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868 - Political and social views.; Legislators - United States - Biography.; Politicians - United States - Biography.; United States - History - 1815-1861.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 19th century.

Additional Author: Birkner, Michael J.,; Miller, Randall M.,; Quist, John W.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.68 B619

Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress at the commencement of the second session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860

Alternate Title: Message of the President of the United States, December 3, 1860; Annual message of the President

Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: George W. Bowman,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: 28 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Slavery - United States; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860

Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress at the commencement of the first session of the thirty fifth congress

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Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Date of Publication: 1857.

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1857 v.2

Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: Cornelius Wendell, Printer,

Date of Publication: 1857.

Physical Description: 572 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Ex. doc. / House of Representatives, 35th Congress, 1st session ; no. 943

Notes: Entire volume is dedicated to Report of the Secretary of War, 1857.; Includes accompanying documents and reports.; Library has Vol. II

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Utah Expedition, 1857-1858.; United States - Politics and government - 1849-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1857 v.2

Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress : at the commencement of the second session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860 36th 2nd

Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: G.W. Bowman, printer,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: v. ; 23 cm.

Series: 36th Cong., 2d Sess. House of Representatives. Ex. doc.

Notes: Includes reports of heads of departments.; On spine: Message and documents, 1860-1861 part 1.; Library has: v. 1.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860 36th 2nd

To what extent did Harriet Lance influence the public policies of James Buchanan?

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Author: Rosenberger, Homer Tope,

Date of Publication: 1970.

King of Spain." �The President Continues To Share Private Political Views With Harriet From the time he was United States Minister to the Court of St. James, Buchanan continued to confide in Harriet the political matters of the day. How could he do otherwise? Politics and the law were his life. Harriet

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Responsibility: by Homer T. Rosenberger.

Author: Rosenberger, Homer Tope,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1970.

Physical Description: [1]-22 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 74, no. 1

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Johnston, Harriet Lane, - 1830-1903.; Presidents - United States; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 74, number 1 (1970), p. 1-22Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.74

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Dedication of the monument to James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States, donated to the city of Lancaster by Dulon F. Buchmiller on the sixtieth anniversary of Mr. Buchanan's death, Friday, June the first, 1928, erected in Buchanan Park, Lancaster, Penna

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Date of Publication: 1928.

Call Number: 923.1 B818de

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: s.n.],

Date of Publication: 1928.

Physical Description: [8] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868 - Statues.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.1 B818de

Life of George Mifflin Dallas, vice president of the United States: Prepared and published in Sepember, 1844, by the Democratic Committee of Publication, John K. Kane, et al

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Edition: Extended to the present time, and reprinted Nov. 1847.

Date of Publication: 1847.

Call Number: 815 P769 # 40

Edition: Extended to the present time, and reprinted Nov. 1847.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia [Pa.]

Publisher: Times and Keystone Job Office,

Date of Publication: 1847.

Physical Description: 20 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Life of George M. Dallas, vice president of the United States.; In: Political Speeches.

Subjects: Dallas, George Mifflin, - 1792-1864.; United States. - Congress. - Senate - Biography.; Vice-Presidents - United States - Biography.; Legislators - United States - Biography.; United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.; Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1775-1865.; Philadelphia (Pa.) - Biography.

Additional Author: Kane, John K.

Additional Corporate Author: Democratic Party (U.S.). Committee of Publication.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 815 P769 # 40

James Buchanan and the coming of the Civil War

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Date of Publication: c2013.

Call Number: 973.68 B918

Responsibility: edited by John W. Quist and Michael J. Birkner.

ISBN: 9780813044262 (alk. paper); 081304426X (alk. paper)

Place of Publication: Gainesville

Publisher: University Press of Florida,

Date of Publication: c2013.

Physical Description: x, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Notes: Papers from a conference held at LancasterHistory.org in 2008. Presentation copy from the editors.; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction: Bum rap or bad leadership? -- James Buchanan, Dred Scott, and the whisper of conspiracy / Paul Finkelman -- Prelude to armageddon: James Buchanan, Brigham Young, and a president's initiation to bloodshed / William P. MacKinnon -- General Jackson is dead: James Buchanan, Stephen A. Douglas, and Kansas policy / Nicole Etcheson -- In defense of doughface diplomacy: a reevaluation of the foreign policy of James Buchanan / John M. Belohlavek -- President James Buchanan: executive leadership and the crisis of the democracy / Michael A. Morrison -- The South has been wronged: James Buchanan and the secession crisis / Jean H. Baker -- "In the midst of a great revolution": the northern response to the secession crisis / William G. Shade -- Joseph Holt, James Buchanan, and the secession crisis / Daniel W. Crofts -- A conversation with William W. Freehling and Michael F. Holt, September 19, 2008 / Moderated by John W. Quist -- Epilogue: James Buchanan's Civil War / Michael J. Birkner.

Summary: An edited volume examining the presidency of James Buchanan and his role engaging the complexities of the debate surrounding the president immediately before Lincoln.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.

Additional Author: Quist, John W.; Birkner, Michael J.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.68 B918

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