Calhoun : American heretic / Robert Elder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elder, Robert, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legislators--United States--Biography.

Legislators.

United States.

Vice-presidents--United States--Biography.

Vice-presidents.

Politics and government.

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850.

Calhoun, John C.

United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 640 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [2021]

Summary:

Describes the life of the American statesman and political theorist who served as Vice President under John Quincy Adams and argued in favor of slavery and laid the groundwork for the South to secede the Union.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The People with No Name

2. Educations

3. The Science of Law

4. "I Am Your True Lover, John C. Calhoun"

5. "The Road That All Great Nations Have Trod"

6. "The Great Gun of the Party"

7. "Let Us Conquer Space"

8. Secretary of Improvement and Empire

9. "To the Western Confines of the Continent"

10. "I Am with the People, and Shall Remain So"

11. "The Impression, That I Acted Under the Force of Destiny"

12. "There Shall Be at Least One Free State"

13. "I Think, I See My Way Clearly on the Slave Question"

14. "It Is Our Thermopylae"

15. "Dangerous and Despotic Doctrines"

16. "The True and Perfect Voice of the People"

17. "Thou Art the Man"

18. "Ours Is the Government of the White Man"

19. The Pillar of Fire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-622) and index.

ISBN:

9780465096442

0465096441

OCLC:

1224586381

Publisher Number:

99986763276