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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dan Monroe; Bruce Tap |
| ISBN: | 0313317453 9780313317453 |
| OCLC Number: | 58478451 |
| Description: | xxviii, 405 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The bloody career of John Brown -- Too late to the prize : James Buchanan -- Freedom national : the life of Salmon Chase -- The stubborn resolve of Jefferson Davis -- "Let the voice of the people rule" : Stephen A. Douglas -- From slavery to freedom : Frederick Douglass and the struggle for equality -- The fear of freedom : George Fitzhugh and the pro-slavery argument -- The eccentric genius of Horace Greeley -- Andrew Johnson and the challenge of impeachment -- Abraham Lincoln and the house divided -- Duty and stoicism : Robert E. Lee -- The young Napoleon : George Brinton McClellan -- The triumphs and contradictions of William H. Seward -- Alexander Stephens : diminutive Whig statesman -- Thaddeus Stevens : radical of radicals -- Literary soldier in a noble cause : Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Charles Sumner and the struggle for equality -- Clement Laird Vallandigham : leader of a "respectable minority" -- Submission or secession : the tragic career of William Lowndes Yancey -- Short biographies. |
| Series Title: | Shapers of the great American debates, no. 6 |
| Responsibility: | Dan Monroe and Bruce Tap. |
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