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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: President Franklin Pierce Got An Acclaimed Author To Write His Campaign Biography
Description: Today in 1804, the birthday of President Franklin Pierce. He's not well known today, but in his time, people learned about the 14th president through a biography written by the acclaimed novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. Plus: today in 1999, the area around Cape Canaveral, Florida gets a very appropriate area code.Â
Franklin Pierce: NH's Forgotten President (NH Magazine)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Party Hack (Slate)
3,2,1, Call Cape Canaveral (New York Times)Â
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