Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War
From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln¿s secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799¿1889) was one of the nineteenth century¿s most prominent political figures. In his wake, however, he left a series of questionable political and business dealings and, at the age of eighty, even a sex scandal. Far more than a biography of Cameron, Amiable Scoundrel is also a portrait of an era that allowed¿indeed, encouraged¿a man such as Cameron to seize political control. The political changes of the early nineteenth century enabled…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61234-814-8
- EAN: 9781612348148
- Produktnummer: 19176515
- Verlag: Potomac Books Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.8 cm x D3.3 cm 717 g
- Gewicht: 717
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