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Salmon P. Chase : a biography / John Niven.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Niven, John, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873.
- Chase, Salmon P.
- United States. Congress. Senate--Biography.
- United States.
- Legislators--United States--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Judges--United States--Biography.
- Judges.
- Governors--Ohio--Biography.
- Governors.
- United States--Politics and government--1849-1877.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (575 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A biography of Salmon P. Chase, one of the principal political figures in the American Civil War period. A rival to Abraham Lincoln for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1860, he subsequently became Secretary of the Treasury in Lincoln's war-time cabinet.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1. Threshold; 2. Trials and Triumphs; 3. The Young Professional; 4. Upward Bound; 5. A Distant Shore; 6. To Recognize the Distinctions; 7. Climbing the Slippery Pole; 8. ""Free Soil, Free Labor and Free Men,""; 9. Among the Great; 10. Mid-passage; 11. Independent Democrat; 12. An Uncertain Future; 13. On the Campaign Trail; 14. As Others See Us; 15. For the Good of the Party; 16. Defeat at the Summit; 17. Visit to Springfield; 18. Loaves and Fishes; 19. War; 20. No Other Recourse; 21. Military Moves and Missions; 22. High Stakes; 23. Emancipation with Exceptions; 24. Mixed Results
- 25. Old Greenbacks26. Bad Company; 27. ""It Is a Big Fish,""; 28. ""So Help Me God,""; 29. A Trip South; 30. Universal Suffrage, Universal Amnesty; 31. Impeachment; 32. One Clear Call; Abbreviations Used in Notes; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-528) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771605-9
- 0-19-992330-2
- 1-280-43981-5
- 1-4237-3612-5
- 0-19-536438-4
- 1-60129-640-1
- OCLC:
- 559886220
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