John Randolph of Roanoke /

One of the most eccentric and accomplished politicians in all of American history, John Randolph (1773-1833) led a life marked by controversy. The long-serving Virginia congressman and architect of Southern conservatism grabbed headlines with his prescient comments, public brawls, and clashes with e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, David E., 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Randolph, John, > 1773-1833
Randolph, John, > 1773-1833.
United States. > Congress. > House.
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
Politics and government
Legislators.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement > 1783-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Keep your land
  • Macbeth hath murdered sleep
  • Ask my constituents
  • Master of the house
  • An evil daily magnifying
  • Yazoo men
  • The tertium quid
  • Mystery of affection and faith
  • House cynosure
  • Of Roanoke
  • An irreclaimable heretic
  • Dying, sir, dying
  • The moral authority of my heart
  • Two souls
  • A fig for the Constitution
  • The puritan and the blackleg
  • Remorse.

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