Silas Wright / John Arthur Garraty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garraty, John Arthur, author.

Series:

Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 552

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1949]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Shares a biography of Silas Wright, through the framework of his own letters, as a prominent politician of the Jackson era who touched upon many important personages and issues first in New York and then as a nation as a whole,.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

I. Young Lawyer

II. Regency Politician

III. Writing a "Just and Liberal" Tariff

IV. Swamps, Bureaus, Diplomats and Patched Trousers

V. Rumblings of a Distant Drum

VI. Battle Royal with Biddle's "Monster"

VII. The "Second Declaration of Independence"

VIII. Washington and Albany - Victory and Defeat

IX. Silas Takes to the Stump

X. Tyler Saves the Day

XI. Texas

XII. "Who is Nero?"

XIII. The End of Wright's "Policy of Declination"

XIV. An Unwanted Victory

XV. Rending Factions

XVI. The Great Debacle: Confusion Twice Confounded

XVII. Back to the Soil

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89054-0

OCLC:

1100447651