Shapers of the great debate on the Civil War : a biographical dictionary / Dan Monroe and Bruce Tap.

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Main Author: Monroe, Dan, 1961-
Other Authors: Tap, Bruce
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
Series:Shapers of the great American debates ; no. 6.
Subjects:
Politicians > United States > Biography > Dictionaries.
Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Biography > Dictionaries.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Causes.
United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865.
United States > Politics and government > 1849-1877.
Genre:
Biography
Dictionaries.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xxviii, 405 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
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.