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Sitting Down with Marshall Flint: Why Franklin Pierce Was the Perfect Place to Begin The Forgotten Presidents

Pierce is not exactly the president whose face appears on every documentary poster. Most Americans know Lincoln. They know Washington. They know Kennedy, Reagan, Roosevelt, and several others who have managed to remain part of the national conversation for decades—or centuries—after they left office. Franklin Pierce, on the other hand, often gets the historical equivalent of, “Oh yes, I vaguely remember that name.”