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Calhoun : American heretic /

A new biography of the intellectual father of Southern secession, the man who set the scene for the Civil War, and whose political legacy still shapes America today. John C. Calhoun is among the most notorious and enigmatic figures in American political history. First elected to Congress in 1810, Ca...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elder, Robert, 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Calhoun, John C. > (John Caldwell), > 1782-1850.
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Vice-presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861.
Table of Contents:
  • The people with no name
  • Educations
  • The science of law
  • "I am your true lover, John C. Calhoun"
  • "The road that all great nations have trod"
  • "The great gun of the party"
  • "Let us conquer space"
  • Secretary of improvement and empire
  • "To the western confines of the continent"
  • "I am with the people, and shall remain so"
  • "The impression, that I acted under the force of destiny"
  • "The shall be at least one free state"
  • "I think, I see my way clearly on the slave question"
  • "It is our Thermopylae"
  • "Dangerous and despotic doctrines"
  • "The true and perfect voice of the people"
  • "Thou art the man"
  • "Ours is the government of the white man"
  • The pillar of fire
  • Epilogue.