Civil War senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the fight to save the American republic
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1. Verfasser: Cook, Robert (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2011
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The younger Pitt, 1806-1836 -- A loyal Whig, 1837-1848 -- Union among ourselves, 1849-1856 -- The road to Civil War, 1857-1861 -- Saving the republic, 1861-1864 -- Secretary of the Treasury, 1864-1865 -- The chief tinker: congressional reconstruction, 1866-1868 -- Epilogue: 1868-1869
One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of the Whig Party during the Kansas-Nebraska crisis and played a formative role in the development of the Republican Party. In this richly textured and fast-paced biography, Robert J. Cook charts Fessenden's rise to power and probes the potent mix of political ambition and republican ideology which impell
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ISBN:0807138266
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