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James Buchanan
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Author : Jean H. Baker
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2004-06-07
James Buchanan written by Jean H. Baker and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the brink of Civil War Almost no president was as well trained and well prepared for the office as James Buchanan. He had served in the Pennsylvania state legislature, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate; he was Secretary of State and was even offered a seat on the Supreme Court. And yet, by every measure except his own, James Buchanan was a miserable failure as president, leaving office in disgrace. Virtually all of his intentions were thwarted by his own inability to compromise: he had been unable to resolve issues of slavery, caused his party to split-thereby ensuring the election of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln-and made the Civil War all but inevitable. Historian Jean H. Baker explains that we have rightly placed Buchanan at the end of the presidential rankings, but his poor presidency should not be an excuse to forget him. To study Buchanan is to consider the implications of weak leadership in a time of national crisis. Elegantly written, Baker's volume offers a balanced look at a crucial moment in our nation's history and explores a man who, when given the opportunity, failed to rise to the challenge.
1857 1861
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Author : Björnstjerne Björnson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912
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Letters 1857 1861
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Author : Thomas Church Brownell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
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The Usa In The Time Of James Buchanan
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Author : Mike Donovan
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-12-24
The Usa In The Time Of James Buchanan written by Mike Donovan and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-24 with categories.
This is the story of the years before the Civil War, when James Buchanan "led" the nation. James Buchanan was a "Doughface" who did not do a whole lot to stop the coming of the Civil War. But how could he have stopped it? This is a general history of the United States in the years before the war. The South seceded under Buchanan, but they really seceded against the President-Elect.
Letters 1857 1861
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Author : James Samuel Wadsworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
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1857 1861 1904
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Author : Henry William Greville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1904
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Letters 1857 1861
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Author : Lydia Howard Sigourney
language : en
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Release Date : 1857
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Collection Of Statutes Framed By The Cambridge University Commissioners 1857 1861
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Author : Cambridge univ, statutes
language : en
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Release Date : 1857
Collection Of Statutes Framed By The Cambridge University Commissioners 1857 1861 written by Cambridge univ, statutes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with categories.
The Statutes Revised Edition
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language : en
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Release Date : 1877
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Stephen Douglas
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Author : Damon Wells
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-09-10
Stephen Douglas written by Damon Wells and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Stephen Douglas and the old Union lived out their last years together. It was the most critical time in the life of both the Illinois senator and his country. During most of the period 1857–1861 the American nation could still choose between adjustment of its sectional differences and civil war, and the man they called the Little Giant seemed the one statesman most likely to lead the country onto a course of compromise and reconciliation. But Douglas’ intense involvement with the American political scene—his great accomplishments in enacting the Compromises of 1850 and 1854, and his victory in the senatorial campaign of 1858—tended at times to disguise a growing alienation from the mainstream of American political life. By 1857 that alienation had reached acute proportions. In part, Douglas fell victim to his own virtues. He sought to be a nationalist in an age of sectionalism; he preached the value of compromise when most Americans questioned its worth. In other respects, Douglas’ political failures are less excusable. His attempt to convert an apparently amoral attitude toward slavery into a principle—popular sovereignty—found him dismissed by antislavery citizens as immoral and by proslavery citizens as unreliable. For too long, Douglas, professing to “care not” about the future of slavery, overlooked how much Americans could care once their consciences had been aroused or their way of life supposedly threatened. Douglas failed to win the presidential campaign of 1860 largely because he could satisfy neither the proponents nor the enemies of slavery. Yet if the last years of Douglas’ life were marred by failure, he was not ultimately the tragic figure some historians have suggested. During the campaign of 1860 a profound change began to take place in Stephen Douglas. The outmoded nationalism he had preached for so long began to give way to Unionism. In his eventual support of Lincoln and his defense of the Union, Douglas at last found a policy worthy of his great talents. Damon Wells first became interested in Stephen Douglas in 1959 after seeing a Broadway dramatization of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Later, his studies convinced him that playwright and historian alike were often unfair to Douglas. If Lincoln was to be a hero, then Douglas had to be cast as a villain. This study fills the need for a fresh and dispassionate look at Douglas and provides a fairer assessment than can be reached by simply endorsing contradictory views of apologists and critics. It places particular emphasis on the Little Giant’s struggle with President James Buchanan, the debates with Lincoln, the presidential campaign of 1860, Douglas’ complex relationship with the South, and a careful analysis of the elusive and at times exasperating principle of popular sovereignty.