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...home to twiddle their thumbs, perhaps die of sheer ennui, or, even worse, to hatch up unsuccessful but embarrassing schemes to stage a comeback-as did Theodore Roosevelt and others? Grant, after two terms (1869-1877), retired, then made a strong bid for the Republican nomination in 1880. Van Buren, defeated for re-election under the Democratic standard in 1840, led the new Free-soil party in 1848. Fillmore, rejected by his dissolving Whig party, became the Know-Nothing candidate...
Author Alexander, better known for biography (Aaron Burr, Martin Van Buren) has shown he can write a rousing account of the rousing Civil War period without depending on battle scenes for his excitement. American Nabob reads like a political biography full of interesting scandal. Chief figure is fictional Curtis Larkins, a wildcat country banker who modeled himself on Henry Clay and Napoleon, grabbed a mountain region full of coal and oil during the Civil War's confusion, developed it afterwards with rugged individualism...
This scheme is in the tradition of the great statesmen of America's history, he says. "I foresee a day when some Congressmen, not a wildcat but a man grounded in American history, faithful to the memory of John Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren and Lincoln, a man grounded in monetary horse sense and practical national finance will propose stamp scrip as payment for all new government expenditures, and for the payment of such part of their employees' salaries as they normally spend on their current expenses...
...Allegan, Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Eaton, Hillsdale, Van Buren...
...activities in real life. This scheme has worked well with such heterogeneous oddities as the Dionnes, Sonja Henie, Lily Pons and Max Baer. The Arkansas Traveler can be regarded as another example of the same school. Robin Burns is a 42-year-old Arkansan who grew up in Van Buren, Ark., became an itinerant laborer, vaudeville comedian and hobo until he joined the Marines in 1917. Most noteworthy achievement of Robin Burns up to this time was the invention and mastery of the bazooka, a homemade horn composed of two gas pipes and a whiskey funnel, which General Pershing once...