The Life Of Thomas Hart Benton Classic Reprint

Author : William M. Meigs
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ISBN 13 : 9781331335894
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Thomas Hart Benton (Classic Reprint) written by William M. Meigs and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Thomas Hart Benton A Good many years have passed since I first read Benton's "Thirty Years' View" and was much struck in particular with the immense boldness of the course which he pursued in many instances in his long career. Never afterwards ceasing to feel an interest in his character, I decided later to write a biography of him and began to collect material for the purpose. As some forty years had, however, passed since his death, it was a difficult task to find survivors having personal knowledge of him, though on the whole I have in this search met with more success than I anticipated. He was not, I think, much given to epistolary correspondence, and I have not secured any large mass of his letters; but some scattering ones here and there have served to throw more or less light on his public and private life. He was, however, a man of very strong convictions, and so addicted to "speaking out in meeting" in a pungent way as to be highly interesting to many of his contemporaries, and there are numerous stories of him in print, telling of his opinions and doings. These I have, of course, used largely. To these sources must be added the long record of his speeches and actions in the Senate, which I have gone over with great care. It has long been well known that Benton was one of the first of our public men of his day, but I think that a consecutive account of his long career will show that, despite his human frailties, he was possibly even entitled to higher rank as a statesman than any one of his three greatest contemporaries in the Senate. 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.