William C. Davis
Robert Barnwell Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fir-Eater
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William C. Davis's biography of Robert Barnwell Rhett provides a definitive picture of South Carolina's most prominent secessionist and arguably the best known in the nation during the two decades leading up to the Civil War. Dubbed the Father of Secession, Rhett attached himself to South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun, but grew more zealous than his mentor on the secession issue. Rhett first raised the possibility of secession in 1826, well before calhoun adopted the notion, and would ever after hold fast to his one great idea. In this examination of Rhett's personal and political endeavors, Davis draws upon many newly found sources to…
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William C. Davis's biography of Robert Barnwell Rhett provides a definitive picture of South Carolina's most prominent secessionist and arguably the best known in the nation during the two decades leading up to the Civil War. Dubbed the Father of Secession, Rhett attached himself to South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun, but grew more zealous than his mentor on the secession issue. Rhett first raised the possibility of secession in 1826, well before calhoun adopted the notion, and would ever after hold fast to his one great idea. In this examination of Rhett's personal and political endeavors, Davis draws upon many newly found sources to reveal the extremism that would make and mar Rhett's adult life.Davis traces the statesman's obsession with a separation from the union, which he initially associated with a protective tariff and internal improvements but by the 1840s had unabashedly connected with slavery. Davis details Rhett's seven terms in Congress, his short-lived stint as a United States Senator, and his leading role in the South's newly energized movement toward secession after the 1860 election. Davis reveals Rhett's ambition to be rewarded with the presidency of the new Confederacy or, at least, a premier cabinet post, and his disappointment when he received neither. Impoverished and embittered at war's end, Rhett spent his last eleven years planting and writing, devoting himself primarily to a caustic personal memoir that he would never complete.Davis evaluates Rhett's place in history as the hungriest of the fire-eaters and finds that such rabid extremism rendered Rhett largely ineffectual, with even South Carolinians refusing to march to his most radicaldrumbeats.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-57003-439-8
- EAN: 9781570034398
- Produktnummer: 9446733
- Verlag: Univ Of South Carolina Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 702 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B16.0 cm x D3.9 cm 1'089 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 1089
Über den Autor
WILLIAM C. DAVIS is the author or editor of nearly fifty books on Civil War and Southern history. For many years the editor and publisher of Civil War Times magazine, he divides his time between consulting on the production of film and television documentaries and on books for publishers in the United States and England. He is currently director of programs for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies, and professor of history at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virgina. Davis lives in Blacksburg.
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