Apostle of Union : a political biography of Edward Everett /

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Known today as "the other speaker at Gettysburg," Edward Everett had a distinguished and illustrative career at every level of American politics from the 1820s through the Civil War. In this new biography, Matthew Mason argues that Everett's extraordinarily well-documented career reve...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mason, Matthew, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Colección:Civil War America (Series)
Temas:
Everett, Edward, > 1794-1865.
Everett, Edward, > 1794-1865
United States. > Congress > Biography.
United States. > Congress
1783-1865
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Statesmen > United States > Biography.
Governors > Massachusetts > Biography.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
Hommes d'État > États-Unis > Biographies.
Biography & Autobiography > Political.
History > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History > United States > 19th century.
Governors
Legislators
Politics and government
Statesmen
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1783-1865.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
Massachusetts
United States
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Scholar, preacher, and paper warrior
  • The House : doughface
  • The House : Whig nationalist
  • The governor and the abolitionists
  • Good cop : minister to Great Britain
  • Harvard president and semi-private citizen
  • Shooting star in Washington : secretary of state and senator
  • Saving Mount Vernon
  • Last ditches : Union meetings, the election of 1860, and the secession crisis
  • Civil warrior.

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