What do you do when your party hasn't won a presidential election in 28 years? You find an outsider and roll the dice. Grover Cleveland's political career was less than three years old when the Democratic party nominated him for president in 1884, but that guaranteed a candidate with a clean record - or so they thought. Get ready for a sex scandal that will have Republicans famously taunting, "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa?" and ultimately victorious Democrats rejoining, "Gone to the White House, ha,...

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22.) Grover Cleveland part I 1885-1889

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16.E.) Lincoln, the Union Army, and the election of 1864; an interview with Jon White

B.) Jefferson Davis, The Confederate President

17.) Andrew Johnson 1865-1869

17.A.) The impeachment of Andrew Johnson, an interview with David O. Stewart

18.) Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877

18.A.) The moments that shaped Ulysses S. Grant, an interview with Nick Sacco

18.B.) The evolving myth and reputation of Ulysses S. Grant, an interview with Joan Waugh

18.C.) Grant, Lincoln, and Reconstruction, an interview with Ron White

19.) Rutherford B Hayes 1877-1881

19.A.) Hayes' evolving views on slavery, an interview with Dustin McLochlin

20.) James A. Garfield 1881-1881

20.A.) Garfield and the Gilded Age, an interview with Todd Arrington

44.A) The Black President, an interview on Barack Obama with Claude A. Clegg

21.) Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885

21.A.) The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur, an interview with Scott Greenberger

22.) Grover Cleveland part I 1885-1889

22.A.) Mugwumps, scandals, and the stunning campaign of 1884, an interview with Ted Kohn

23.) Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893

23.A.) How Benjamin Harrison won his way to defeat, an interview with Charles Calhoun

23.B.) What is legacy, anyway? An interview on Benjamin Harrison with Charles Hyde

24.) Grover Cleveland part II 1893-1897

24.A.) Grover Cleveland's reelection revenge, an interview with Mark Summers

24.B.) The lies and secrets of Grover Cleveland, an interview with Matthew Algeo

25.) William McKinley 1897-1901

25.A.) How William McKinley revolutionized politics, an interview with Christopher McKnight Nichols

25.B.) William McKinley's American Empire, an interview with Robert Merry

26.) Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909

26.A.) The progressivism of Theodore Roosevelt, an interview with Alycia of Civics and Coffee Pod

26.B.) How NY made TR, an interview with Ted Kohn

26.C.) Teddy Roosevelt, the press, and the bully pulpit; an interview with Harold Holzer

26.D.) Teddy Roosevelt, his cabinet, and a doomed bromance with William Howard Taft; an interview with Lindsay Chervinsky

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