Civil War Senator - William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic

Informationen zum Autor Robert J. Cook is a professor of American history at the University of Sussex in Britain. His book, Troubled Commemoration: The American Civil War Centennial, 1961--1965, was a finalist for the Lincoln Prize. Klappentext One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of the Whig Party during the Kansas-Nebraska crisis and played a formative role in the development of the Republican Party. In this richly textured and fast-paced biography, Robert J. Cook charts Fessenden's rise to power and probes the potent mix of political ambition and republican ideology which impelled him to seek a place in the U.S. Senate at a time of rising tension between North and South. Zusammenfassung The first biography of William Pitt Fessenden in over forty years, Civil War Senator reveals a significant but often sidelined historical figure and explains the central role played by party politics and partisanship in the coming of the Civil War, northern military victory, and the ultimate failure of postwar Reconstruction.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Robert J Cook, Robert J. Cook
• Verlag: Louisiana state univ pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780807137079
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3707-9
• Seiten: 344
• Serien: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimens; Conflicting Worlds: New Dimens; Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges