Book Review: Franklin Pierce, by Michael F. Holt

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POTUS #14: Not quite the most boring or incompetent President ever, but he might have been the handsomest.

Comments

[max_sinister]

Recently I re-read "The Crying of Lot 49" and had to think of you. Pierce? Very fitting indeed. :-)

Here's a quote about him:
"Frank Perse was rale sot be down to Dover. He was a good deal of a man f'r Dover an' f'r Strafford County; indeed he done very well f'r th' State o' Noo Hampshire; but when ye come t' spread him over t' United States he was a l-e-e-tle thin."
-New Hampshire farmer reminiscing about Pierce, recorded in The Yale Review, 1916