Salmon P. Chase: A Biography
Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of nineteenth-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of Reconstruction, he was the presiding officer of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Yet he was also a complex figure. As John Niven reveals in this magisterial biography, Chase was a paradoxical blend of idealism and ambition. If he stood for the highest moral purposes - the freedom and eq…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-504653-3
- EAN: 9780195046533
- Produktnummer: 22683356
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 576 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.4 cm x D4.1 cm 1'120 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 1120
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