Gideon Welles; Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niven, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabinet officers--United States--Biography.

Cabinet officers.

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878.

Welles, Gideon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (697 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1973.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A full-scale life and times biography of an important Civil War figure.

Contents:

CONTENTS; 1 A ROVING DISPOSITION; 2 GENTLEMAN-EDITOR (1825-1828); 3 APPRENTICESHIP IN POLITICS; 4 REWARDS FOR THE FAITHFUL; 5 ASSIGNMENT IN WASHINGTON; 6 CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE; 7 STRUGGLE FOR ASCENDANCY; 8 LOCO-FOCO; 9 NILES, WELLES AND CO.; 10 A PERSISTENT SUITOR; 11 HARD TIMES; 12 LOW EBB; 13 MUTUAL FEARS; 14 INDEPENDENT DEMOCRAT; 15 FREE SOIL AND FRÉMONT; 16 CHICAGO: 1860; 17 NEW ENGLAND'S REPRESENTATIVE MAN; 18 CONFLICT; 19 THE EXECUTIVE TOUCH; 20 TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS; 21 NEPTUNE AND MARS; 22 CONFUSION OF PURPOSES; 23 MONITOR MANIA; 24 A BLUNTED TRIDENT; 25 ON THE DEFENSIVE

26 SUFFRAGE IS CRUCIAL; 27 THE ISSUE IS WITH HIM; 28 THE MADNESS OF THE HOUR; 29 DRAMA AND MELODRAMA; 30 OLD AND FULL OF DAYS; ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; APPENDIX I; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliography: p. [639]-654.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-53989-5

0-19-536544-5

OCLC:

476007568