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Carl Schurz : a biography / by Hans L. Trefousse.
LIBRA E664.S39 T7 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trefousse, Hans L. (Hans Louis), 1921-2010.
- Series:
- North's Civil War 1089-8719 ; no. 5.
- The North's Civil War, 1089-8719 ; no. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906.
- Schurz, Carl.
- Statesmen--United States--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- United States.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States. Congress. Senate.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- German Americans--Biography.
- German Americans.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- "Born in Germany in 1829, Schurz became involved in the Revolution of 1848 when he was a student at the University of Bonn. Participating in the revolutionary army in Baden, he managed to escape through a sewer during the siege of Rastatt, flee across the Rhine to France, and come back to rescue his professor, Gottfried Kinkel, from a jail near Berlin. This deed made him famous, and when he came to America in 1852, he speedily made use of his ethnic connections to enter politics."--BOOK JACKET. "As a role model for German Americans, Schurz always preached the necessity of assimilation but the retention of the German heritage. Schurz's legacy is of importance to this day, particularly because he represented the older liberal German tradition with its tolerance and opposition to racial and religious hatreds."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- Chapter I Youth 3
- Chapter II Revolution 14
- Chapter III Exile 28
- Chapter IV America 45
- Chapter V Antislavery and the Beginning of Ethnic Politics 58
- Chapter VI Victory and Secession 80
- Chapter VII Radical Minister to Spain 98
- Chapter VIII Radical Brigadier General 115
- Chapter IX Radical Major General 131
- Chapter X Reconstruction 150
- Chapter XI The Triumph of Ethnic Politics 170
- Chapter XII The Break with Grant 182
- Chapter XIII The Liberal Republican Debacle 197
- Chapter XIV Independent Liberal Leader 216
- Chapter XV Secretary of the Interior 235
- Chapter XVI Mugwump 253
- Chapter XVII Independent 264
- Chapter XVIII Anti-Imperialist: The Last Years 277.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1982.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-373) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0823218546
- 0823218554
- OCLC:
- 38073261
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