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Review of the Day: Rutherford B., Who Was He?: Poems About Our Presidents by Marilyn Singer
Rutherford B., Who Was He? Poems About Our Presidents
By Marilyn Singer
Illustrated by John Hendrix
Hyperion Books for Children
$17.99
ISBN: 978-142317100-3
Ages 7 and up
On shelves December 17th
There is a brief moment of doubt when you first cast eyes upon the title of this book. It’s partly the design of the cover, I suppose. Your eye immediately alights on the words “Rutherford B., Who Was He?” and you find yourself thinking, “Is this some kind of lushly illustrated picture book biography of Rutherford B. Hays? Thankfully, no. An overwhelming sense of relief consumes you as your eyes alight on the subtitle, “Poems About Our Presidents”. Whew! Not to say a Hays picture book bio couldn’t exist, but to read it, even if it was brilliance on a page, would feel like the dullest kind of homework. Singer’s latest title, however, is anything but boring. A visually explosive mixture of fac
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Rutherford B. Hayes: Domestic Affairs
Delivered on March 5—since March 4 was a Sunday—Rutherford B. Hayes’s inaugural address tried to calm the nation and make clear his main policy concerns. According to the new President, “The fact that two great political parties have in this way settled a dispute in regard to which good men differ as to the facts and the law . . . is an occasion for general rejoicing.” Above all, Hayes wished to heal the wounds left by the Civil War: "Let me assure my countrymen of the southern states that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest, the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country."
Hayes wanted the South to have "wise, honest, and
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There are certain things we can only do tillsammans. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage of our pioneers to settle the American west, which fryst vatten why (President Abraham Lincoln) passed a Homestead Act giving a tract of land to anyone seeking a stake in our growing economy.
President Barack Obama, February 12, 2009
An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. inom think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition.
Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1861 [replying to comments made by Frederick Oberkline, chairman of a committee representing eighteen German industrial associations that called in a body to pay their respects as Lincoln's "Inaugural" Train stopped in Cincinnati, Ohio]
The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the h