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Author : John Caldwell Calhoun,Clyde Norman Wilson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0872494187
The first portion of Calhoun's service as U.S. Secretary of State.
Author : John Caldwell Calhoun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000086392
"A Liberty Classics edition"--T.p. verso.Selected speeches: p. [401]-601. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : John Niven
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807118583
John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) was one of the prominent figure of American politics in the first half of the nineteenth century. The son of a slaveholding South Carolina family, he served in the federal government in various capacities—as senator from his home state, as secretary of war and secretary of state, and as vice-president in the administrations of John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Calhoun was a staunch supporter of the interests of his state and region. His battle from tariff reform, aimed at alleviating the economic problems of the southern states, eventually led him to formulate his famous nullification doctrine, which asserted the right of states to declare federal laws null and void within their own boundaries. In the first full-scale biography of Calhoun in almost half a century, John Niven skillfully presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Deftly blending Calhoun’s public career with important elements of his private life, Niven shows Calhoun to have been at once a more consistent politician and a far more complex human being than previous historians have thought. Rather than history’s image of an assured, self-confident Calhoun, Niven reveals a figure who was in many ways insecure and defensive. Niven maintains that the War of 1812, which Calhoun helped instigate and which nearly resulted in the nation’s ruin, made a lasting impression on Calhoun’s mind and personality. From that point until the end of his life, he sought security first from the western Indians and the British while he was secretary of war, then from northern exploitation of southern wealth through what he regarded as manipulation of public policy while he was vice-president and a senator. He worked tirelessly to further the South’s slave-plantation system of economic and social values. He sought protection for a region that he freely admitted was low in population and poor in material resources, and he defended a position that he knew was morally inferior. Niven portrays Calhoun as a driven, tragic figure whose ambitions and personal desires to achieve leadership and compensate for a lack of inner assurance were often thwarted. The life he made for himself, the peace he felt on his plantation with his dependent retainers, and the agricultural pursuits that represented to him and his neighbors stability in a rapidly changing environment were beyond price. Calhoun sought to resist any menace to this way of life with all the force of his character and intellect. Yet in the end Calhoun’s headstrong allegiance to his region helped to destroy the very culture he sought to preserve and disrupted the Union he had hoped to keep whole. Niven’s masterful retelling of Calhoun’s eventful life is a model biography.
Author : John Caldwell Calhoun
Publisher : Regnery Gateway
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0895261790
The conflict between power and liberty in a free government was the passionate concern of this most articulate, and often prophetic, orator and writer.
Author : Robert Elder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Calhoun Family
ISBN : 0465096441
John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It was during his time as Jackson's vice president that he crafted his famous doctrine of "state interposition," which laid the groundwork for the south to secede from the union -- and arguably set the nation on course for civil war. Other accounts of Calhoun have portrayed him as a backward-looking traditionalist -- he was, after all, an outspoken apologist for slavery, which he defended as a "positive good." But he was also an extremely complex thinker, and thoroughly engaged in the modern world. He espoused many ideas that resonate strongly with popular currents today: an impatience for the spectacle and shallowness of politics, a concern about the alliance between wealth and power in government, and a skepticism about the United States' ability to spread its style of democracy throughout the world. Calhoun has catapulted back into the public eye in recent years, as the tensions he navigated and inflamed in his own time have surfaced once again. In 2015, a monument to him in Charleston, South Carolina became a flashpoint after a white supremacist murdered nine African-Americans in a nearby church. And numerous commentators have since argued that Calhoun's retrograde ideas are at the root of the modern GOP's problems with race. Bringing together Calhoun's life, his intellectual contributions -- both good and bad -- and his legacy, Robert Elder's book is a revelatory reconsideration of the antebellum South we thought we knew.
Author : John Caldwell Calhoun,Clyde Norman Wilson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : South Carolina
ISBN : 0872498891
Calhoun's last weeks as Secretary of State & the intervening months before he returned to the U.S. Senate .
Author : Hermann Von Holst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024462657
Author : Calhoun, John Caldwell
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1851-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781623766924
Author : Calhoun, John Caldwell
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1851-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781623766931
Author : John Caldwell Calhoun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011815958
Author : John Caldwell Calhoun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : United States
ISBN : UVA:X001119909
Author : Irving H. Bartlett
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393332861
John C. Calhoun was a rare figure in American history: a lifelong politician who was also a profound political philosopher. Vice president under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, he was a dominant presence in the U.S. Senate. Now comes a major new biography from the author of Daniel Webster.
Author : John C. Calhoun
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1969-09
Category : South Carolina
ISBN : 0872491501
Author : John Caldwell Calhoun
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : United States
ISBN : NYPL:33433082342910
Author : John C. Calhoun
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783849675189
John C. Calhoun was the seventh Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832. He was a strong defendant of slavery and of Southern values versus Northern threats. His beliefs and warnings heavily influenced the South's secession from the Union in 1860–1861. This is volume five out of six of his works, this one containing reports and letters (1811-1846).
