Author

Publication

1993-07-19 - Louisiana State University Press

Language

English

Word Count

91,750 words, Guess

Page Count

367 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC328.73/092/4
  • DDCB
  • LCCE340.C15 N58 1988

Description

In the first full-scale biography of Calhoun in almost fifty years, John Niven presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Skillfully blending Calhoun's public career with important elements of his private life, Niven shows Calhoun to have been at once a more consistent politician and a more complex human being than previous historians have portrayed. This masterly retelling of John C. Calhoun's eventful life is a model biography.

First Sentence

It was obvious to those who visited John C. Calhoun during the second week of March, 1850, that the sixty-eight-year-old southern statesman was extremely ill.

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Other Editions

  • John C. Calhoun and the Price of UnionPaperbackLouisiana State University Press1993-07-19

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