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The Papers Of Ulysses S Grant
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Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2000
The Papers Of Ulysses S Grant written by Ulysses Simpson Grant and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Generals categories.
The Papers Of Ulysses S Grant
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Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1998
The Papers Of Ulysses S Grant written by Ulysses Simpson Grant and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Manuscripts, American categories.
Papers Of Ulysses S Grant
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Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2008
Papers Of Ulysses S Grant written by Ulysses Simpson Grant and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Manuscripts, American categories.
The Papers Of Ulysses S Grant February 1 December 31 1872
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Author : Ulysses Simpson Grant
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Papers Of Ulysses S Grant February 1 December 31 1872 written by Ulysses Simpson Grant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Manuscripts, American categories.
Grant deals with criticism as parties squabble and inflation threatens.
Andrew Johnson And Ulysses S Grant
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Author : Garry Boulard
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2022-09-15
Andrew Johnson And Ulysses S Grant written by Garry Boulard and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with History categories.
In the spring of 1865, after the end of the Civil War and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, two men bestrode the national government as giants: Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant. How these two men viewed what a post-war America should look like would determine policy and politics for generations to come, impacting the lives of millions of people, North and South, black and white. While both Johnson and Grant initially shared similar views regarding the necessity of bringing the South back into the Union fold as expeditiously as possible, their differences, particularly regarding the fate of millions of recently-freed African Americans, would soon reveal an unbridgeable chasm. Add to the mix that Johnson, having served at every level of government in a career spanning four decades, very much liked being President and wanted to be elected in his own right in 1868, at the same time that a massive move was underway to make Grant the next president during that same election, and conflict and resentment between the two men became inevitable. In fact, competition between Johnson and Grant would soon evolved into a battle of personal destruction, one lasting well beyond their White House years and representing one of the most all-consuming and obsessive struggles between two presidents in U.S. history.
Amiable Scoundrel
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Author : Paul Kahan
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2016-07-01
Amiable Scoundrel written by Paul Kahan and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln's secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799-1889) was one of the nineteenth century's most prominent political figures. In his wake, however, he left a series of questionable political and business dealings and, at the age of eighty, even a sex scandal. Far more than a biography of Cameron, Amiable Scoundrel is also a portrait of an era that allowed--indeed, encouraged--a man such as Cameron to seize political control. The political changes of the early nineteenth century enabled him not only to improve his status but also to exert real political authority. The changes caused by the Civil War, in turn, allowed Cameron to consolidate his political authority into a successful, well-oiled political machine. A key figure in designing and implementing the Union's military strategy during the Civil War's crucial first year, Cameron played an essential role in pushing Abraham Lincoln to permit the enlistment of African Americans into the U.S. Army, a stance that eventually led to his forced resignation. Yet his legacy has languished, nearly forgotten save for the fact that his name has become shorthand for corruption, even though no evidence has ever been presented to prove that Cameron was corrupt. Amiable Scoundrel puts Cameron's actions into a larger historical context by demonstrating that many politicians of the time, including Abraham Lincoln, used similar tactics to win elections and advance their careers. This study is the fascinating story of Cameron's life and an illuminating portrait of his times.
John Mcdonald And The Whiskey Ring
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Author : Edward S. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-10-28
John Mcdonald And The Whiskey Ring written by Edward S. Cooper and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-28 with History categories.
The most flamboyant, consistently dishonest racketeer was Supervisor of Internal Revenue John McDonald, whose organization defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars. When President Grant was asked why he appointed McDonald supervisor of internal revenue he responded, “I was aware that he was not an educated man, but he was a man that had seen a great deal of the world and of people, and I would not call him ignorant exactly, he was illiterate.” McDonald organized and ran the Whiskey Ring but he always credited Grant with the initiation of the Ring declaring that the president “actually stood god-father at its christening.” The demise of the Ring rivals anything that the real or fictional Elliot Ness and his “Untouchables” ever accomplished during the prohibition era in America.
A Dreadful Deceit
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Author : Jacqueline Jones
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-12-10
A Dreadful Deceit written by Jacqueline Jones and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-10 with History categories.
In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color of their skin and the economic injustices they battled—yet the former is what defines them in America’s consciousness. In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of these two men and four other African Americans to reveal how the concept of race has obscured the factors that truly divide and unite us. Expansive, visionary, and provocative, A Dreadful Deceit explodes the pernicious fiction that has shaped American history.
Daniel Sickles A Life
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Author : Garry Boulard
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2019-11-19
Daniel Sickles A Life written by Garry Boulard and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The name Daniel Sickles and the word controversy are synonymous. Any student of 19th century American political history is familiar with Sickles’ 1859 murder of Philip Barton Key, the son of Francis Scott Key, who had seduced Sickles’ young wife. That murder, because Sickles was at the time a New York Congressman and Key a district attorney for Washington, captured the country’s imagination, a front-page event that inevitably ensnarled President James Buchanan, a close Sickles friend, inviting in the process explorations of what was seen as a sordid Washington society of the late 1850s. Civil War historians know Sickles as the General who led the men of the Union’s III Corps out onto the exposed expanse of the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg, a decision many scholars have regarded as disastrous, and one that nearly led to an overall Union defeat at the famous battlefield, while losing for Sickles his right leg from Confederate shelling. But these two singular, if spectacular events, in a very real sense represent only two days out of an extraordinary lifetime of 94 years. The rest of Sickles’ career was made up of his rise as a young stalwart of New York’s notorious Tammany Hall; his two terms in Congress leading up to the Civil War; his contentious service as a military governor of the Carolinas after the War; his newsworthy tenure as U.S. Minister to Spain in the late 1860s and early 70s; and even his stint, at the age of 70, as the sheriff of the county encompassing New York City. Beyond the headlines were Sickles’ relationships with presidents ranging from Franklin Pierce to Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, not to mention an improbable friendship with Theodore Roosevelt at the turn of the century. Daniel Sickles: A Life is the first full-length published treatment looking in depth at the entirely of one man’s almost unbelievably colorful and contentious career. Garry Boulard is the author of The Expatriation of Franklin Pierce—The Story of a President and the Civil War (iUniverse, 2006), and The Worst President—The Story of James Buchanan (iUniverse, 2015). Boulard’s essays and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Journal of Ethnic Studies, Louisiana History, Journal of Mississippi History, and Florida Historical Quarterly, among many other publications.
Greytown Is No More
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Author : Will Soper
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-02-14
Greytown Is No More written by Will Soper and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-14 with History categories.
The Central American port of Greytown was destroyed by the U.S. Navy in 1854 to "avenge an insult to the American Minister to Nicaragua," according to official history. Two weeks later, the New York Tribune reported the intrigues that really doomed the port: Greytown had been a hindrance to the supremacy of a U.S.-owned steamboat company and to the colonization plans of American land speculators. Both interests used pretexts to convince the U.S. government to level the town. When an American sued for damages, he lost, resulting in a case law still cited to justify military interventions without the Congressional approval required by the Constitution. This book corrects the record regarding the causes of Greytown's destruction, and challenges the case law, based as it is on a gross misapprehension of events.