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Horace Greeley and the Politics of Reform in Nineteenth-Century America
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 34.99Snay's new biography places Horace Greeley (1811?1872) in his historical context. As a newspaper editor, politician, and reformer, Greeley was involved with the major events and trends of the era. He was the influential editor of the New York Tribune from 1841 until his death and was instrumental in the rise of the Whig and Republican parties.... more...
William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War
The University of North Carolina Press 2006; US$ 45.95IWilliam Lowndes Yancey (1814-63) was one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. In this first comprehensive biography, Eric H. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater. Born in Georgia but raised in the North by a fiercely abolitionist stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother, Yancey grew... more...
The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 35.95Did preoccupations with family and work crowd out interest in politics in the nineteenth century, as some have argued? Arguing that social historians have gone too far in concluding that Americans were not deeply engaged in public life and that political historians have gone too far in asserting that politics informed all of Americans' lives, Mark... more...
James F. Jaquess
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 38.00Tall, handsome and charismatic, James Jaquess impressed men and charmed ladies who knew him as a preacher, a college president or colonel of an Illinois regiment. In 1864 he and James Gilmore talked to Jefferson Davis about terms of peace. Lincoln recognized his many abilities and invited Jaquess to serve as one of his personal agents. But after the... more...
Manifest Destiny's Underworld
The University of North Carolina Press 2002; US$ 28.95This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters"--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal... more...





