Shapers of the great debate on the Civil War : a biographical dictionary /
With the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1848, the United States seemed poised to fulfill the manifest destiny that was on the lips of journalists and politicians. Yet, even before the war was over, tensions over the issue of slavery erupted. Slavery symbolized the social, cultural, constitutional,...
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| Language: | English |
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Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press,
2005.
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| ISBN: | 0313061785 9780313061783 1282409387 9781282409385 9786612409387 661240938X |
| ISSN: | 1099-2693 ; |
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Table of Contents:
- The bloody career of John Brown
- Too late to the prize : James Buchanan
- Freedom national : the life of Salmon Chase
- The stubborn resolve of Jefferson Davis
- "Let the voice of the people rule" : Stephen A. Douglas
- From slavery to freedom : Frederick Douglass and the struggle for equality
- The fear of freedom : George Fitzhugh and the pro-slavery argument
- The eccentric genius of Horace Greeley
- Andrew Johnson and the challenge of impeachment
- Abraham Lincoln and the house divided
- Duty and stoicism : Robert E. Lee
- The young Napoleon : George Brinton McClellan
- The triumphs and contradictions of William H. Seward
- Alexander Stephens : diminutive Whig statesman
- Thaddeus Stevens : radical of radicals
- Literary soldier in a noble cause : Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Charles Sumner and the struggle for equality
- Clement Laird Vallandigham : leader of a "respectable minority"
- Submission or secession : the tragic career of William Lowndes Yancey
- Short biographies.