Author: George Alfred Townsend
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385497523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author: George Alfred Townsend
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: George Alfred 1841-1914 Townsend
Publisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781362439837
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Author: Alta Blanche Claflin
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Category : Political parties
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: Michael A. Ross
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807129241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Appointed by Abraham Lincoln to the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War, Samuel Freeman Miller (1816--1890) served on the nation's highest tribunal for twenty-eight tumultuous years and holds a place in legal history as one of the Court's most influential justices. Michael A. Ross creates a colorful portrait of a passionate man grappling with the difficult legal issues arising from a time of wrenching social and political change. He also explores the impact President Lincoln's Supreme Court appointments made on American constitutional history. Best known for his opinions in cases dealing with race and the Fourteenth Amendment, particularly the 1873 Slaughter-House Cases, Miller has often been considered a misguided opponent of Reconstruction and racial equality. In this major reinterpretation, Ross argues that historians have failed to study the evolution of Miller's views during the war and explains how Miller, a former slaveholder, became a champion of African Americans' economic and political rights. He was also the staunchest supporter of the Court of Lincoln's controversial war measures, including the decision to suspend such civil liberties as habeas corpus. Although commonly portrayed as an agrarian folk hero, Miller in fact initially foresaw and embraced a future in which frontier and rivertown settlements would bloom into thriving metropolises. The optimistic vision grew from the free-labor ideology Miller brought to the Iowa Republican Party he helped found, one that celebrated ordinatry citizens' right to rise in station an driches. Disillusioned by the eventual failure of the boomtowns and repelled by the swelling coffers of eastern financiers, corporations, and robber barons, Miller became an insistent judicial voice for western Republicans embittered and marginalized in the Gilded Age. The first biography of Miller since 1939, this welcome volume draws on Miller's previously unavailable papers to shed new light on a man who saw his dreams for America shattered but whose essential political and social values, as well as his personal integrity, remained intact.

Author: Enoch Pratt Free Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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Includes its Report, 1896-1945.

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Languages : en
Pages : 836

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Author: William Warren Rogers
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252031601
Category : Boulder (Colo.)
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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A controversial period in American history as revealed through one man's personal and political experiences