Amiable scoundrel

From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln’s secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799–1889) was one of the nineteenth century’s most prominent political figures. In his wake, however, he left a series of questionable political and business dealings and, at the age of eighty, even a sex scandal.

שנה

2016

שפה

English

הוצאה

Potomac Books

מהדורות

3

עמודים

367

ISBN

9781612348148

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata