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John C. Calhoun, American portrait

Main Author: Coit, Margaret L.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
Physical Description: ix, 593 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Calhoun, John C. -- (John Caldwell), -- 1782-1850.
Table of Contents:
  • The heritage
  • For God and Timothy Dwight
  • Years of growth
  • THe birth of a patriot
  • Of courts and courting
  • The second American Revolution
  • Young Hercules
  • Toward a broadening union
  • Mr. Secretary of War
  • The master of Dumbarton Oaks
  • Mr. Vice-President Calhoun
  • A unionist comes home
  • Petty arts
  • America grows up
  • Blue cockades and dueling pistols
  • Force and counter-force
  • Calhoun at war
  • The age of Jackson
  • Slavery - the theory and the fact
  • Floride
  • Years of decision
  • Calhoun and the Lone Star
  • The master of Fort Hill
  • America in mid-century
  • A nation-sized American
  • The rising storm
  • The statesman and the man
  • No compromise with destiny
  • When Rome survived
  • Minority champion.

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