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Author : John Wentworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Congressional Reminiscences written by John Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wentworth
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385474965
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Congressional Reminiscences. Adams, Benton, Calhoun, Clay, and Webster written by John Wentworth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : John Wentworth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780282998745
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Congressional Reminiscences written by John Wentworth and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Congressional Reminiscences: Adams, Benton, Calhoun, Clay, and Webster The speaker of this evening, Col. Wentworth, the best-known man in the north-west, needs no introduction to this representa tive and crowded audience, who well know whom they came to hear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : John Wentworth
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385474973
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Congressional Reminiscences. Adams, Benton, Calhoun, Clay, and Webster written by John Wentworth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : John Wentworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780649421497
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Congressional Reminiscences written by John Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wentworth
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Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Congressional Reminiscences written by John Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ken Mueller
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501757555
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Senator Benton and the People written by Ken Mueller and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was their first senator and served in Washington, DC, for more than thirty years. Like Andrew Jackson, with whom he had a long and complicated relationship, Benton came out of the developing western section of the young American Republic. The foremost Democratic leader in the Senate, he claimed to represent the rights of "the common man" against "monied interests" of the East. "Benton and the people," the Missourian was fond of saying, "are one and the same"—a bit of bombast that reveals a good deal about this seasoned politician who was himself a mass of contradictions. He possessed an enormous ego and a touchy sense of personal honor that led to violent results on several occasions. Yet this conflation of "the people" and their tribune raises questions not addressed in earlier biographies of Benton. Mueller provides a fascinating portrait of Senator Benton. His political character, while viewed as flawed by contemporary standards, is balanced by his unconditional devotion to his particular vision. Mueller evaluates Benton's career in light of his attitudes toward slavery, Indian removal, and the Mexican borderlands, among other topics, and reveals Benton's importance to a new generation of readers. He offers a more authentic portrait of the man than has heretofore been presented by either his detractors or his admirers.
Author : Joanne B. Freeman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717613
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Field of Blood written by Joanne B. Freeman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
Author : Thomas R. Hietala
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801488467
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Manifest Design written by Thomas R. Hietala and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the earlier edition-- "A fascinating, thought-provoking book.... Hietala shows that it was not destiny but design and aggression that enabled the United States to control Texas, New Mexico, and California."--Historian"Hietala has examined an impressive array of primary and secondary materials.... His handling of the relationship between the domestic and foreign policies of the decade shatters some myths about America's so-called manifest destiny and deserves the attention of all scholars and serious students of the period."--Western Historical Quarterly Since 1845, the phrase "manifest destiny" has offered a simple and appealing explanation of the dramatic expansionism of the United States. In this incisive book, Thomas R. Hietala reassesses the complex factors behind American policymaking during the late Jacksonian era. Hietala argues that the quest for territorial and commercial gains was based more on a desire for increased national stability than on any response to demands by individual pioneers or threats from abroad.
Author : Harold D. Moser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313068674
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Daniel Webster written by Harold D. Moser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-03-30 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Hiram Williams Beckwith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Discourse on the Aborigines of the Ohio Valley written by Hiram Williams Beckwith and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Blackman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 158836481X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Wild Rose written by Ann Blackman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005-06-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For sheer bravado and style, no woman in the North or South rivaled the Civil War heroine Rose O’Neale Greenhow. Fearless spy for the Confederacy, glittering Washington hostess, legendary beauty and lover, Rose Greenhow risked everything for the cause she valued more than life itself. In this superb portrait, biographer Ann Blackman tells the surprising true story of a unique woman in history. “I am a Southern woman, born with revolutionary blood in my veins,” Rose once declared–and that fiery spirit would plunge her into the center of power and the thick of adventure. Born into a slave-holding family, Rose moved to Washington, D.C., as a young woman and soon established herself as one of the capital’s most charming and influential socialites, an intimate of John C. Calhoun, James Buchanan, and Dolley Madison. She married well, bore eight children and buried five, and, at the height of the Gold Rush, accompanied her husband Robert Greenhow to San Francisco. Widowed after Robert died in a tragic accident, Rose became notorious in Washington for her daring–and numerous–love affairs. But with the outbreak of the Civil War, everything changed. Overnight, Rose Greenhow, fashionable hostess, become Rose Greenhow, intrepid spy. As Blackman reveals, deadly accurate intelligence that Rose supplied to General Pierre G. T. Beauregard written in a fascinating code (the code duplicated in the background on the jacket of this book). Her message to Beauregard turned the tide in the first Battle of Bull Run, and was a brilliant piece of spycraft that eventually led to her arrest by Allan Pinkerton and imprisonment with her young daughter. Indomitable, Rose regained her freedom and, as the war reached a crisis, journeyed to Europe to plead the Confederate cause at the royal courts of England and France. Drawing on newly discovered diaries and a rich trove of contemporary accounts, Blackman has fashioned a thrilling, intimate narrative that reads like a novel. Wild Rose is an unforgettable rendering of an astonishing woman, a book that will stand with the finest Civil War biographies.
Author : John C. Waugh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842029452
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (294 download)
Download or read book On the Brink of Civil War written by John C. Waugh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the dramatic story of what happened when a handful of senators tried to hammer out a compromise to save the Union.
Author : K. Kippola
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137068779
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Acts of Manhood written by K. Kippola and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the performance of masculinity on and off the nineteenth-century American stage, this book looks at the shift from the passionate muscularity to intellectual restraint as not a linear journey toward national refinement; but a multitude of masculinities fighting simultaneously for dominance and recognition.
Author : Illinois State Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalogue ... written by Illinois State Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Illinois State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Illinois State Library written by Illinois State Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Springfield Ill, Illinois state libr
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Illinois state library. W.H. Hinrichsen, librarian written by Springfield Ill, Illinois state libr and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
