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EBOOK Salmon P. Chase:A Biography
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199923304
EAN: E7E7995EEB
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Stron: 576
Data wydania: 1995
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Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-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, and 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 equality of all        mankind--these lofty ideas failed to mask a thirst for power so deeply ingrained in        his character that it drove away many who shared his principles, but mistrusted his        motives.Niven provides a vivid description of Chase's early years--his childhood in        New Hampshire (where his father's failed business venture and early death left the        family all but destitute) and in Ohio (where he was sent to live with his uncle        Philander, an Episcopal bishop), his education at Dartmouth, and his early law        career in Cincinnati. Niven shows how the plight of the slaves stirred this reticent        young lawyer, and how Chase gradually moved to the forefront of the antislavery        movement. At the same time, we see how he used his growing prominence in the        antislavery movement to forward his political ambitions. Niven illuminates Chase's        long tenure as a public man. Twice elected United States Senator, twice chosen        governor of Ohio (then the third most populous state in the Union), Chase organized        the widespread but diffuse anti-slavery movement into a workable political        organization, the Free Soil party (whose slogan "e;Free Soil, Free Labor, Freemen"e;        Chase coined himself). We read of Chase's work in Lincoln's war cabinet and his        tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and we also follow his many political        maneuvers, his attempts to undercut rivals, and his poorly run campaigns for        presidential nominations. Niven also provides an intimate portrait of Chase's family        life--his loss of three wives and four of his six children, and the unfortunate        marriage of his beautiful daughter Kate to a rich but dissolute man--and a vivid        picture of life at mid-century.What emerges is a portrait of a tragic figure, whose        high qualities of heart and mind and whose many achievements were ultimately        tarnished by an often unseemly quest for power. It is a striking look at an eminent        statesman as well as a revealing glimpse into political life in 19th-century        America, all set against a background of the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War,        and the turmoil of Reconstruction.

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