Charles Sumner
Published on 21. August 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
1152 pages
978-0-306-80720-6 (ISBN)
Description
}Charles Sumner (18111874), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for two decades, was an ardent abolitionist; a founder of the Republican Party; chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1861 to 1871; chief of the Radical Republicans during the Civil War and Reconstruction; Lincoln's friend and, later, Grant's nemesis; as well as an advocate for universal equality, international peace, women's suffrage, and educational and prison reform. This edition combines for the first time Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man into one monumental biography that brings into brilliant focus the character and impact of one of the most controversial and enduring forces in American history. }
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Edition
Da Capo Press ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
49 illustrations
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-80720-6 (9780306807206)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Introduction to the Da Capo Edition; Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War; A Natural Coldness; You Were Meant for Boston; The Life of Life; The Iron Curtain; An Outrageous Philanthropist; Let the Lines Be Drawn; Glacial Solitude; A One-Idead Abolitionist Agitator; The Slave of Principles; Outside of Any Healthy Political Organization; The Crime Against Kansas; The Vacant Chair; If Mr. Lincoln Stands Firm; Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man; More Than One Idea; Riding the Nigger Hobby; Remove Him!; Equality Before the Law; Making His History; Very Like Robespierre; My Name Was Dishonored; Life Is a Burden; To Fill a Patriot with Despair; The Massive Grievance; The Greatest Champion of Liberty; An Act of Sheet Brutality; He Stands on a Bridge; So White a Soul; List of Manuscript Collections & Scrapbooks Cited.