Presidential

James Buchanan: The bachelor and the bloodshed

04.18.2016 - By The Washington PostPlay

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America is on the eve of civil war, and James Buchanan is alone in the White House as our first and only bachelor president. Historians Jean Baker and Jim Loewen, and The Washington Post's Jim Tankersley, explore the lack of personal and political union.

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