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Barcode37821002426126
LocationMarshall District
TitleCalhoun : American heretic / Robert Elder.
AuthorElder, Robert, 1981- author.
Call No973.5092 ELD
CollectionAdult 900

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International Standard Book Number 9780465096442
International Standard Book Number 0465096441
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 973.5092 B
Personal Name Elder, Robert, 1981- author.
Title Statement Calhoun : American heretic / Robert Elder.
Edition Statement First edition.
Imprint New York : Basic Books, 2021.
Physical Description xiv, 640 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-622) and index.
Formatted Contents Note 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 -- "The 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" -- "There 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 men" -- The pillar of fire -- Epilogue.
Citation/References Note Kirkus 12/01/2020.
Summary, Etc. "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." --book jacket.
Subject-Personal Name Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Vice-Presidents United States Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Legislators United States Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term United States Politics and government 1815-1861.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term South Carolina Politics and government 1775-1865.