Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion
Author: James Buchanan
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 316
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Author: James Buchanan
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Buchanan
Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1582181802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn autobiographical vindication of the policy of the Buchanan administration during the last months of his term, this book is an important source for understanding the political events leading to the secession and the Civil War. Throughout his administration, Buchanan was constantly plagued with the issues of slavery, even though the existence of domestic slavery in the South was recognized and protected by the Constitution of the United States. This book details the rising conflict within the nation as Southern slave holding states argued with Northern abolitionists and Anti-Slavery societies as to whether or not slavery should continue to flourish in the United States.
Author: Buchanan
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 314
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James BUCHANAN (President of the United States of America.)
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 316
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 52
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Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780805069464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1. Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 2. Presidents United States Biography 3. United States - Politics and Government - 1857-1861.
Author: John W. Quist
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2013-03-19
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0813045037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs James Buchanan took office in 1857, the United States found itself at a crossroads. Dissolution of the Union had been averted and the Democratic Party maintained control of the federal government, but the nation watched to see if Pennsylvania's first president could make good on his promise to calm sectional tensions. Despite Buchanan's central role in a crucial hour in U.S. history, few presidents have been more ignored by historians. In assembling the essays for this volume, Michael Birkner and John Quist have asked leading scholars to reconsider whether Buchanan’s failures stemmed from his own mistakes or from circumstances that no president could have overcome. Buchanan's dealings with Utah shed light on his handling of the secession crisis. His approach to Dred Scott reinforces the image of a president whose doughface views were less a matter of hypocrisy than a thorough identification with southern interests. Essays on the secession crisis provide fodder for debate about the strengths and limitations of presidential authority in an existential moment for the young nation. Although the essays in this collection offer widely differing interpretations of Buchanan's presidency, they all grapple honestly with the complexities of the issues faced by the man who sat in the White House prior to the towering figure of Lincoln, and contribute to a deeper understanding of a turbulent and formative era.
Author: James Buchanan
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas J. Balcerski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-08-02
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0190914602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe friendship of the bachelor politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King (1786-1853) of Alabama has excited much speculation through the years. Why did neither marry? Might they have been gay? Or was their relationship a nineteenth-century version of the modern-day "bromance"? In Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, Thomas J. Balcerski explores the lives of these two politicians and discovers one of the most significant collaborations in American political history. He traces the parallels in the men's personal and professional lives before elected office, including their failed romantic courtships and the stories they told about them. Unlikely companions from the start, they lived together as congressional messmates in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse and became close confidantes. Around the nation's capital, the men were mocked for their effeminacy and perhaps their sexuality, and they were likened to Siamese twins. Over time, their intimate friendship blossomed into a significant cross-sectional political partnership. Balcerski examines Buchanan's and King's contributions to the Jacksonian political agenda, manifest destiny, and the increasingly divisive debates over slavery, while contesting interpretations that the men lacked political principles and deserved blame for the breakdown of the union. He closely narrates each man's rise to national prominence, as William Rufus King was elected vice-president in 1852 and James Buchanan the nation's fifteenth president in 1856, despite the political gossip that circulated about them. While exploring a same-sex relationship that powerfully shaped national events in the antebellum era, Bosom Friends demonstrates that intimate male friendships among politicians were--and continue to be--an important part of success in American politics.
Author: James Buchanan
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 588
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