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Anne-Marie Taylor

Young Charles Sumner and the Legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811-1851

Buch

An outspoken abolitionist, a founder of the Free Soil and Republican parties, and a leading member of the U. S. Senate for more than twenty years, Charles Sumner (1811-1874) has always figured prominently in histories of the American Civil War. For the most part, however, he has been depicted as a psychologically troubled extremist, a fanatical opponent of slavery whose self-righteousness was matched only by his arrogance.In this book, Anne-Marie Taylor challenges that longstanding view, offering in its stead the portrait of a man animated more by principle than by impulse or ambition. According to Taylor, Sumner's reform-minded politics, inc… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-55849-300-1
  • EAN: 9781558493001
  • Produktnummer: 1643428
  • Verlag: Univ Of Massachusetts Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
  • Seitenangabe: 422 S.
  • Masse: H24.4 cm x B16.5 cm x D3.8 cm 948 g
  • Gewicht: 948

Über den Autor


ANNE-MARIE TAYLOR is an independent scholar.

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