Mentelles - Mary Todd Lincoln, Henry Clay, Immigrant Family Who Educated

This study sheds new light on the lives of a remarkable pair who not only bore witness to key events in early American history, but had a singular impact on the lives of their friends, their students, and their community.

Info autore

Randolph Paul Runyon, professor emeritus at Miami University and a native of Kentucky, is the author of Order in Disorder (on Montaigne), Intratextual Baudelaire, Ghostly Parallels: Robert Penn Warren and the Lyric Poetic Sequence, The Braided Dream: Robert Penn Warren's Late Poetry, Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad, and books on La Fontaine, Montesquieu, and Raymond Carver.

Riassunto

Drawing on newly translated materials and previously overlooked primary sources, Randolph Paul Runyon explores the life and times of the important but understudied pair in this intriguing dual biography.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Randolph Runyon, Randolph Paul Runyon
• Editore: University Press of Kentucky
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780813175386
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-7538-6
• Pagine: 280
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Amerikanische Geschichte, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, History - U.S., USA Süden, South Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators