Broken glass : Caleb Cushing & the shattering of the Union /

The most hated man in New England, as critics dubbed him on the eve of the Civil War, Caleb Cushing, brash and controversial, was perhaps the last of 19th-century America's renaissance figures. Poet and politician, essayist and diplomat, general and lawyer, this multidimensional scion of a Newb...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Belohlavek, John M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©2005.
Series:Civil War in the North.
Subjects:
Cushing, Caleb, > 1800-1879.
Cushing, Caleb, > 1800-1879
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
United States. > Congress. > House
1775-1865
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Politicians > Massachusetts > Biography.
Mexican War, 1846-1848 > Biography.
Diplomats > United States > Biography.
Diplomats > China > Biography.
Attorneys general > United States > Biography.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
Politiciens > Massachusetts > Biographies.
Guerre du Mexique, 1846-1848 > Biographies.
Diplomates > États-Unis > Biographies.
Diplomates > Chine > Biographies.
Procureurs généraux > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > 19th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Attorneys general
Diplomats
Legislators
Politics and government
Politicians
Massachusetts > Politics and government > 1775-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861.
Massachusetts > Politique et gouvernement > 1775-1865.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1815-1861.
China
Massachusetts
United States
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The view from High Street, 1800-1826
  • Foreign adventures and congressional ventures, 1827-1834
  • Whig star rising : the politics of antislavery, 1835-1837)
  • Battling the British Lion and the American Fox, 1837-1840
  • Tyler and the Corporal's Guard, 1841-1843
  • The road to China, 1843-1844
  • The warrior of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1848
  • The doughface Democrat, 1848-1853
  • The powerbroker : attorney general, 1853-1857
  • The most unpopular man in New England, 1857-1861
  • From Massachusetts exile to Washington insider, 1861-1869
  • The diplomat reemerges, 1869-1879.

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