Author : Nathan Sargent
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Statesmen
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Author : Nathan Sargent
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 22,10 MB
Release : 1875
Category : Statesmen
ISBN :
Author : Rachel A. Shelden
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 146961085X
Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, in Washington Brotherhood, Rachel Shelden paints a more nuanced portrait of Washington as a less fractious city with a vibrant social and cultural life. Politicians from different parties and sections of the country interacted in a variety of day-to-day activities outside traditional political spaces and came to know one another on a personal level. Shelden shows that this engagement by figures such as Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Stephens had important consequences for how lawmakers dealt with the sectional disputes that bedeviled the country during the 1840s and 1850s--particularly disputes involving slavery in the territories. Shelden uses primary documents--from housing records to personal diaries--to reveal the ways in which this political sociability influenced how laws were made in the antebellum era. Ultimately, this Washington "bubble" explains why so many of these men were unprepared for secession and war when the winter of 1860-61 arrived.
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
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Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher :
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Libraries
ISBN :
Author : Michael J. Birkner
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780838631607
Biography of Samuel L. Southard, one of New Jersey's most distinguished political leaders. Southard (1787-1842) participated in most of the major political controversies of his era, from the bitter Federalist-Republican competition during the War of 1812 through the rise and flowering of the second American party system. During a career that spanned three decades, Southard served in a remarkable array of weighty offices--state attorney general, New Jersey supreme court justice, governor, Secretary of the Navy, United States senator, and president of the Morris Canal and Banking Company.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 1915
Category :
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Author : Cadmus Book Shop
Publisher :
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
ISBN :
Author : Harold D. Moser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 2005-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313068674
Daniel Webster captured the hearts and imagination of the American people of the first half of the nineteenth century. This bibliography on Webster brings together for the first time a comprehensive guide to the vast amount of literature written by and about this extraordinary man who dwarfed most of his contemporaries. This bibliography also provides references to materials on slavery, the tariff, banking, Indian affairs, legal and constitutional development, international affairs, western expansion, and economic and political developments in general. This bibliography is divided into fifteen sections and covers every aspect of Webster's distinguished career. Sections I and II deal primarily with Webster's writings and with those of his contemporaries. Sections III through X cover the literature dealing with his family background; childhood and education, his long service in the United States House of Representatives and in the Senate, his two stints as secretary of state, and his career in law. Section X provides guidance in locating materials relating to his associates. Finally, Sections XI through XV provide coverage of his personal life, his death, historiographical materials, and iconography.
Author : Amy S. Greenberg
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0804173443
The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk—a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism. While the Women’s Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, in her riveting biography, Amy S. Greenberg brings Sarah’s story into vivid focus. We see Sarah as the daughter of a frontiersman who raised her to discuss politics and business with men; we see the savvy and charm she brandished in order to help her brilliant but unlikeable husband, James K. Polk, ascend to the White House. We watch as she exercises truly extraordinary power as First Lady: quietly manipulating elected officials, shaping foreign policy, and directing a campaign in support of America’s expansionist war against Mexico. And we meet many of the enslaved men and women whose difficult labor made Sarah’s political success possible. Sarah Polk’s life spanned nearly the entirety of the nineteenth-century. But her own legacy, which profoundly transformed the South, continues to endure. Comprehensive, nuanced, and brimming with invaluable insight, Lady First is a revelation of our twelfth First Lady’s complex but essential part in American feminism.
