A Southern Moderate in Radical Times : Henry Washington Hilliard, 1808-1892 /
In A Southern Moderate in Radical Times, David I. Durham offers a comprehensive and critical appraisal of one of the South's famous dissenters. Against the backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in American history, he explores the ideological and political journey of Henry Washington Hi...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From North Carolina to Alabama : Henry W. Hilliard's early life and career
- Law, politics, and the life of the mind
- From law to politics : the move to the political stage
- Prelude to Chaeronaea : Hilliard's years in Congress
- Seasons of despair
- Postwar life and the search for identity
- "A journey in Brazil" : the quest for redemption
- Conclusion: The elder statesman
- Appendix 1: Hilliard family tomb inscriptions
- Appendix 2: Last will and testament of Hon. Henry W. Hilliard.