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Charles M. Wiltse

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Description:Allan Nevins, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and Professor of History at Columbia University, writes in the Book-of-the-Club News of JOHN C. CALHOUN, NATIONALIST by Charles M. Wiltse: "A full and satisfactory biography of Calhoun's career down to the beginning of Jackson's administration, correcting many errors and misunderstandings . . . a narrative which is interesting and convincing. The book is one of the most important biographies of the year."A modern biography of John C. Calhoun has been long overdue. He is known to the average American, chiefly through legend, as the champion of slavery and State rights. The Calhoun of the years covered in the present volume is as different from the Calhoun of popular fancy as the portrait on the jacket is different from that of the spare, cadaverous elder statesman shown in the daugerrotypes of the 1840s.At the very beginning of his career in the House of Representatives he joined with Clay to lead the War Hawks, the small group of young men who drove Congress to declare war on Great Britain in 1812. As Secretary of War in Monroe's cabinet he established the bureau type of organization in the Federal government and created the pattern of the modern army. As Vice President of the United States he helped found the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson. Throughout the period of this volume the full weight of Calhoun's leadership was applied to preserving and strengthening the Union at a time when many a Northern Federalist was toying with secession. Much new material together with a reappraisal of the old has permitted Charles M. Wiltse to revise the legend and produce a fresh and compelling view of the great South Carolina statesman.In his thinking about both internal policies and international relations Calhoun was keenly aware of the forces to be loosed by the inevitable industrialization of the new nation, forces which would accelerate the shifts of power and disrupt the balance never quite gained. His generation was the first to feel the full impact of the machine upon the social and political order. He was the first statesman to translate a reaction to it into terms of a political program. Few men have seen so clearly or understood more fully the factors that shaped the age they lived in. If you like, Charles Wiltse says, "regard him as a contemporary of Karl Marx, and one who saw the problem with at least equal clarity, but who offered a conservative instead of a radical solution." His failure revealed, perhaps more searchingly than success would have, the processes by which we were and are governed."Ethan P. Allen, Associate Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University, writes of John C. Calhoun: Nationalist, "I was struck by the many deadly parallels which could be drawn between Calhoun's period and the current scene. Basic sectional, economic, social and philosophical divergences of the period of the young War Hawks can, without distortion of fact, he projected onto the current struggles for power. A powerfully contemporaneous tone is thus given to the book without any sense of unrealism or deliberate moral preachment. Much of real value to our leaders today could be learned from a careful reading."Inasmuch as Calhoun took a major part in every important political struggle from 1810 to 1828, his biography is an illuminating account of the political history of his time. The other great figures in the struggles — there were giants in those days — are depicted with clarity and force. Charles Wiltse has done a magnificent job of placing Calhoun in his period, of presenting the clash of personalities, of reminding us that Calhoun loved, played, hoped and worried as all men do. He has brought out splendidly one of the finest traits of Calhoun — his attachment to his family. He has skillfully indicated the dilemma of the political thinker confronted with the devious motives of men in political action. He has given proper emphasis to Calhoun's notable service as Secretary of War.The custodian of the Calhoun manuscripts at Clemson College, professor A. G. Holmes, writes: "Before I read this book, I would have argued about some of the interpretations. That would have been in part due to my ignorance of some materials the author has. But his presentation has been most convincing and now I think more highly of Calhoun than ever before."The style is clear, direct, appealing. The author's interpretation is original and shows a complete mastery of materials and subject. He has written by far the best book that has ever been written on Calhoun."John C. Calhoun: Nationalist is more than that, for in addition to a masterly presentation of Calhoun himself it is a penetrating study of the contest of minorities against the dominant majority in a democracy, a a contest which, with only minor changes of values and opponents, is repeating itself in the political arena. It is a contribution to historical biography th...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John C. Calhoun: Nationalist, 1782-1828. To get started finding John C. 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Pages: 477

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Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company

Release: 1944

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Description: Allan Nevins, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and Professor of History at Columbia University, writes in the Book-of-the-Club News of JOHN C. CALHOUN, NATIONALIST by Charles M. Wiltse: "A full and satisfactory biography of Calhoun's career down to the beginning of Jackson's administration, correcting many errors and misunderstandings . . . a narrative which is interesting and convincing. The book is one of the most important biographies of the year."A modern biography of John C. Calhoun has been long overdue. He is known to the average American, chiefly through legend, as the champion of slavery and State rights. The Calhoun of the years covered in the present volume is as different from the Calhoun of popular fancy as the portrait on the jacket is different from that of the spare, cadaverous elder statesman shown in the daugerrotypes of the 1840s.At the very beginning of his career in the House of Representatives he joined with Clay to lead the War Hawks, the small group of young men who drove Congress to declare war on Great Britain in 1812. As Secretary of War in Monroe's cabinet he established the bureau type of organization in the Federal government and created the pattern of the modern army. As Vice President of the United States he helped found the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson. Throughout the period of this volume the full weight of Calhoun's leadership was applied to preserving and strengthening the Union at a time when many a Northern Federalist was toying with secession. Much new material together with a reappraisal of the old has permitted Charles M. Wiltse to revise the legend and produce a fresh and compelling view of the great South Carolina statesman.In his thinking about both internal policies and international relations Calhoun was keenly aware of the forces to be loosed by the inevitable industrialization of the new nation, forces which would accelerate the shifts of power and disrupt the balance never quite gained. His generation was the first to feel the full impact of the machine upon the social and political order. He was the first statesman to translate a reaction to it into terms of a political program. Few men have seen so clearly or understood more fully the factors that shaped the age they lived in. If you like, Charles Wiltse says, "regard him as a contemporary of Karl Marx, and one who saw the problem with at least equal clarity, but who offered a conservative instead of a radical solution." His failure revealed, perhaps more searchingly than success would have, the processes by which we were and are governed."Ethan P. Allen, Associate Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University, writes of John C. Calhoun: Nationalist, "I was struck by the many deadly parallels which could be drawn between Calhoun's period and the current scene. Basic sectional, economic, social and philosophical divergences of the period of the young War Hawks can, without distortion of fact, he projected onto the current struggles for power. A powerfully contemporaneous tone is thus given to the book without any sense of unrealism or deliberate moral preachment. Much of real value to our leaders today could be learned from a careful reading."Inasmuch as Calhoun took a major part in every important political struggle from 1810 to 1828, his biography is an illuminating account of the political history of his time. The other great figures in the struggles — there were giants in those days — are depicted with clarity and force. Charles Wiltse has done a magnificent job of placing Calhoun in his period, of presenting the clash of personalities, of reminding us that Calhoun loved, played, hoped and worried as all men do. He has brought out splendidly one of the finest traits of Calhoun — his attachment to his family. He has skillfully indicated the dilemma of the political thinker confronted with the devious motives of men in political action. He has given proper emphasis to Calhoun's notable service as Secretary of War.The custodian of the Calhoun manuscripts at Clemson College, professor A. G. Holmes, writes: "Before I read this book, I would have argued about some of the interpretations. That would have been in part due to my ignorance of some materials the author has. But his presentation has been most convincing and now I think more highly of Calhoun than ever before."The style is clear, direct, appealing. The author's interpretation is original and shows a complete mastery of materials and subject. He has written by far the best book that has ever been written on Calhoun."John C. Calhoun: Nationalist is more than that, for in addition to a masterly presentation of Calhoun himself it is a penetrating study of the contest of minorities against the dominant majority in a democracy, a a contest which, with only minor changes of values and opponents, is repeating itself in the political arena. It is a contribution to historical biography th...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with John C. Calhoun: Nationalist, 1782-1828. To get started finding John C. Calhoun: Nationalist, 1782-1828, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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