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.

Product details

• Authors: Robert J Cook, Robert J. Cook
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780807137079
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3707-9
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimens; Conflicting Worlds: New Dimens
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous