Very complete and well-researched biography of this often ignored President. It has tons of citations and lots of detail. Not only are. his terms in office covered, the reader will learn about his campaigns, his personal life, and his early life. An excellent addition to Presidental scholarship.

This book surprised me with how much I both enjoyed the reading experience and also learned more than I expected. I went into the book confusing Grover Cleveland with Chester Arthur (in my defense, they were both unexpected presidents from New York...). Once Senik straightened me out, I found myself fascinated with Cleveland as a person as well as this oft-overlooked section of history. I also appreciated Senik's authorial voice with occasional inserts of wry wit presented in concise quips. He used just the right amount. This book will make an excellent addition to my collection.

This book provides a great background on Cleveland, from his early life and influences, to the beginning of his journey in politics, to his unusual presidential terms. It was interesting to learn more about his beliefs and tactics in dealing with politicians and citizens. This book also includes a short overview of his health concerns and secretive surgery that he had while serving as president.
The book is easy to read.

This brick of a book ranges from fawning to critical in tone, but manages to give a pretty thorough depiction of Cleveland's life. I picked it up because he was my umpty-great uncle and I was curious about him. In the process I learned quite a lot about post-Reconstruction US politics and Tamany Hall era politicking. Very interesting, although I could have done with a little less narrative bias and more historical context.

President Grover Cleveland is best known for being, as of this date, the only person to serve two nonconsecutive terms as president and that's pretty much it. He has mostly been overlooked by the public familiar with household name presidents before and after his tenure. A Man of Iron is trying to change that, Troy Senik argues that Cleveland was one of our greatest presidents who did not govern under a major crisis like Lincoln, Wilson, or FDR did. The book is well researched and detailed. I especially enjoyed learning about his life before the presidency, specifically his role as sheriff/hangman in Erie County, NY, mayor of Buffalo, and NY Governor. One of the aspects you learn about Cleveland is that he was a man of character and integrity. He fought against corruption and tried to be as ethical as possible even to the detriment to his political party. The book covers his successes and failures as president, First Lady Frances Cleveland, the Pullman Strike, his scandalous cancer surgery, and more. It will be interesting to see if this book helps elevates his status among historians. In my mind it definitely elevates him as a person of integrity and good character.

Fun fact: Grover Cleveland is one of my favorite presidents. I have been a history nerd my whole like and there is nary a book on President Cleveland that I actually enjoyed. This book was so enlightening and I appreciated the work put into this book by Troy Senik. I definitely want this in a hard copy.

All that I really knew about Grover Cleveland was that he served two non-consecutive terms and was a Democrat. This excellent biography changed that. Books about Grover Cleveland are not easy for a lay reader to find, I don't know why.

This book covered Cleveland's youth and adulthood, as well as his presidency. It is well written and well researched, which made it a pleasure to read. I learned a lot about the politics of the period, and how Cleveland reacted to them.

I am so glad I read this book. There is a whole run of presidents after Grant who tend to be skipped over until McKinley, and yet those were important years in the development of the nation. "A Man of Iron" brings an interesting president out of obscurity, illuminating a formative period in the nation's history.

A Man of Iron offers a fresh examination of the only president to serve non- consecutive terms, Grover Cleaveland. I found the biography to be well researched and well written. Senik focuses mostly on the political side of Cleaveland’s life, interspersing it sparingly with coverage of his personal life.
For someone who may never have known much about the 22nd and 24th president, this book offered a great introduction.
I can appreciate Cleavekand much more because he had integrity, a characteristic that is sorely lacking in the presidency.

I do believe this is the most researched, interesting book that I have read on Grover Cleveland. This book will take you through Cleveland's early life, the controversial events, the two non-consecutive Presidential terms, and his death. I have always found Cleveland fascinating and enjoyed reading about him. I have many books about Grover, but it is nice to have a book that covers everything. The best part about a book like this is that the book follows so nicely that it reads like a fiction book instead of an encyclopedia.

This is an excellent biography of the life of Grover Cleveland, the only President to serve two nonconsecutive terms. The book is well written and researched making a faster read than some other presidential biographies I have read. It addresses Cleveland’s early childhood that helped develop him into the individual that later served as President. He was a constitutionalist and held firm to his beliefs making him an unusual politician in that he did not bend to current events or popular trends. His rise to the Presidency was unanticipated by both himself and many others, but the yellow journalism of the time and the opposition created untruths that caused him many challenges. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in Presidential biographies.

I received a free Kindle copy of this book courtesy of Net Galley and the publisher with the understanding that I would post a review on Net Galley, Goodreads, Amazon, Facebook and my nonfiction book review blog.

“A Man of Iron” by Troy Senik is, as the Publisher’s summary states, a very overdue book about Grover Cleveland. For a man to have been a twice-elected President of the United States (numbers 22 and 24) is an amazing feat. This is a very detailed book, nicely not crossing the line of being “too detailed” with too many footnotes and author comments. This book took me a while to read, but I have a new appreciation for Mr. Cleveland, whose two terms came with their own separate problems. At the end of his second term, Cleveland was regarded as an unpopular president, but this book helps support why, with the passage of time, Cleveland is now regarded as an successful leader for the time.

A well written, interesting page turner about Grover Cleveland. A breath of fresh air to read a biography about a with new information and out an American president. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the early read.

Grover Cleveland must be one of those presidents that are so easy to lose in history. Fortunately, this book brings back all the color that was the man.