John C Calhoun And The Price Of Union
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John C Calhoun And The Price Of Union
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Author : John Niven
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1993-07-01
John C Calhoun And The Price Of Union written by John Niven and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-07-01 with History categories.
John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) was one of the prominent figure of American politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. The son of a slaveholding South Carolina family, he served in the federal government in various capacities—as senator from his home state, as secretary of war and secretary of state, and as vice-president in the administrations of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Calhoun was a staunch supporter of the interests of his state and region. His battle from tariff reform, aimed at alleviating the economic problems of the southern states, eventually led him to formulate his famous nullification doctrine, which asserted the right of states to declare federal laws null and void within their own boundaries. In the first full-scale biography of Calhoun in almost half a century, John Niven skillfully presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Deftly blending Calhoun’s public career with important elements of his private life, Niven shows Calhoun to have been at once a more consistent politician and a far more complex human being than previous historians have thought. Rather than history’s image of an assured, self-confident Calhoun, Niven reveals a figure who was in many ways insecure and defensive. Niven maintains that the War of 1812, which Calhoun helped instigate and which nearly resulted in the nation’s ruin, made a lasting impression on Calhoun’s mind and personality. From that point until the end of his life, he sought security first from the western Indians and the British while he was secretary of war, then from northern exploitation of southern wealth through what he regarded as manipulation of public policy while he was vice-president and a senator. He worked tirelessly to further the South’s slave-plantation system of economic and social values. He sought protection for a region that he freely admitted was low in population and poor in material resources, and he defended a position that he knew was morally inferior. Niven portrays Calhoun as a driven, tragic figure whose ambitions and personal desires to achieve leadership and compensate for a lack of inner assurance were often thwarted. The life he made for himself, the peace he felt on his plantation with his dependent retainers, and the agricultural pursuits that represented to him and his neighbors stability in a rapidly changing environment were beyond price. Calhoun sought to resist any menace to this way of life with all the force of his character and intellect. Yet in the end Calhoun’s headstrong allegiance to his region helped to destroy the very culture he sought to preserve and disrupted the Union he had hoped to keep whole. Niven’s masterful retelling of Calhoun’s eventful life is a model biography.
John C Calhoun And The Price Of Union
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Author : John Niven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
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Union And Liberty
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Author : John Caldwell Calhoun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Union And Liberty written by John Caldwell Calhoun and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
"A Liberty Classics edition"--T.p. verso.Selected speeches: p. [401]-601. Includes bibliographical references and index.
John C Calhoun
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Author : Hermann Von Holst
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
John C Calhoun written by Hermann Von Holst and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Legislators categories.
Herman von Holst's John C. Calhoun is a biography of the divisive and influential Southern statesmen who dominated much of the American political discourse in the years prior to the Civil War. The work covers the subject's life from his youth, through his introduction to American politics, to his tenure as Vice President under Andrew Jackson and in the U.S. Senate as the "Great Nullifier". The work concludes with his participation in the debates about the Mexican War and its consequences. Throughout the work, von Holst is critical of Calhoun as the Southern statesmen schemed for the dissolution of the Union. As was the case with American political history during the period, the issue of slavery dominates the biography. Von Holst presents Calhoun as a proud defender of the institution and by extension a defender of state sovereignty and the right to secede. He takes Calhoun at his word, reprinting several of the Southerner's speeches in which he states the absolute necessity of protecting Southern "Liberty", even at the cost of disunion.
Speeches Of John C Calhoun
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Author : John Caldwell Calhoun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1843
Speeches Of John C Calhoun written by John Caldwell Calhoun and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1843 with United States categories.
The Works Of John C Calhoun
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Author : John Caldwell Calhoun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
The Works Of John C Calhoun written by John Caldwell Calhoun and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Works Of John C Calhoun A Disquisition On Government And A Discourse On The Constitution And Government Of The United States
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Author : John Caldwell Calhoun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863
The Works Of John C Calhoun A Disquisition On Government And A Discourse On The Constitution And Government Of The United States written by John Caldwell Calhoun and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1863 with United States categories.
Against The Force Bill By
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Author : John C. Calhoun
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-04
Against The Force Bill By written by John C. Calhoun 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 2017-11-04 with categories.
John Caldwell Calhoun March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina, and the seventh Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He is remembered for strongly defending slavery and for advancing the concept of minority rights in politics, which he did in the context of defending white Southern interests from perceived Northern threats. He began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer, and proponent of a strong national government and protective tariffs. By the late 1820s, his views reversed and he became a leading proponent of states' rights, limited government, nullification, and opposition to high tariffs-he saw Northern acceptance of these policies as the only way to keep the South in the Union. His beliefs and warnings heavily influenced the South's secession from the Union in 1860-1861.
The Works Of John C Calhoun Speeches Delivered In The House Of Representatives And In The Senate Of The United States
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Author : John Caldwell Calhoun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
The Works Of John C Calhoun Speeches Delivered In The House Of Representatives And In The Senate Of The United States written by John Caldwell Calhoun and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with United States categories.
Calhoun
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Author : Robert Elder
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-02-16
Calhoun written by Robert Elder and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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, Calhoun went on to serve as secretary of war and vice president. But he is perhaps most known for arguing in favor of slavery as a "positive good" and for his famous doctrine of "state interposition," which laid the groundwork for the South to secede from the Union—and arguably set the nation on course for civil war. Calhoun has catapulted back into the public eye in recent years, as some observers connected the strain of radical politics he developed to the tactics and extremism of the modern Far Right, and as protests over racial injustice have focused on his legacy. In this revelatory biographical study, historian Robert Elder shows that Calhoun is even more broadly significant than these events suggest, and that his story is crucial for understanding the political climate in which we find ourselves today. By excising Calhoun from the mainstream of American history, he argues, we have been left with a distorted understanding of our past and no way to explain our present.