Silas Wright / / John Arthur Garraty.
Shares a biography of Silas Wright, through the framework of his own letters, as a prominent politician of the Jackson era who touched upon many important personages and issues first in New York and then as a nation as a whole,.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1949] ©1949 |
| Year of Publication: | 1949 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- I. Young Lawyer
- II. Regency Politician
- III. Writing a "Just and Liberal" Tariff
- IV. Swamps, Bureaus, Diplomats and Patched Trousers
- V. Rumblings of a Distant Drum
- VI. Battle Royal with Biddle's "Monster"
- VII. The "Second Declaration of Independence"
- VIII. Washington and Albany - Victory and Defeat
- IX. Silas Takes to the Stump
- X. Tyler Saves the Day
- XI. Texas
- XII. "Who is Nero?"
- XIII. The End of Wright's "Policy of Declination"
- XIV. An Unwanted Victory
- XV. Rending Factions
- XVI. The Great Debacle: Confusion Twice Confounded
- XVII. Back to the Soil
- Bibliography
- Index