John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union
John Niven · 1988
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In the first full-scale biography of Calhoun in almost fifty years, John Niven presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Skillfully blending Calhoun's public career with important elements of his private life, Niven shows Calhoun to have been at once a more consistent politician and a more complex human being than previous historians have portrayed. This masterly retelling of John C. Calhoun's eventful life is a model biography.
First sentence: It was obvious to those who visited John C. Calhoun during the second week of March, 1850, that the sixty-eight-year-old southern statesman was extremely ill.
Book details
- Year
- 1988
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 367
- ISBN
- 9780807118580
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