Forgotten Firebrand : James Redpath and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America /
The reformer James Redpath (1833-1891) was a focal figure in many of the key developments in nineteenth-century American political and cultural life. He befriended John Brown, Samuel Clemens, and Henry George and, toward the end of his life, was a ghostwriter for Jefferson Davis. He advocated for ab...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell 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:
- The roving editor
- The crusader of freedom
- Echoes of Harpers Ferry
- Commissioner plenipotentiary for Haiti
- The radical publisher
- Abolitionizing the South
- The Redpath Lyceum Bureau
- Entertainment innovator
- The adopted Irishman
- Jefferson Davis's ghostwriter.