Author: John Louis O'Sullivan
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Peace the Sole Chance Now Left for Reunion
Author: John Louis O'Sullivan
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Aberdeen University Studies
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Languages : en
Pages : 714
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Languages : en
Pages : 714
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John L. O'Sullivan and His Times
Author: Robert Sampson
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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The life of nineteenth-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast for lost causes John Louis O'Sullivan is usually glimpsed only in brief episodes, perhaps because the components of his life are sometimes contradictory. An exponent of romantic democracy, O'Sullivan became a defender of slavery. A champion of reforms for women, labor, criminals, and public schools, he ended his life promoting spiritualism. This first full-length biography reveals a man possessed of the idealism and promise, as well as the prejudices and follies, of his age, a man who sensed the revolutionary and liberating potential of radical democracy but was unable to acknowledge the racial barriers it had to cross to fulfill its promise. Sure to be welcomed by scholars of the Jacksonian era and others interested in nineteenth-century American history, John L. O'Sullivan and His Times presents an in-depth examination of O'Sullivan's ideas as they were expressed in the Democratic Review and other newspapers and literary magazines that he edited. O'Sullivan was a crusader whose efforts to end capital panishment came within a hair's breadth of ending hanging in New York; an editor who called down the w
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The life of nineteenth-century journalist, diplomat, adventurer, and enthusiast for lost causes John Louis O'Sullivan is usually glimpsed only in brief episodes, perhaps because the components of his life are sometimes contradictory. An exponent of romantic democracy, O'Sullivan became a defender of slavery. A champion of reforms for women, labor, criminals, and public schools, he ended his life promoting spiritualism. This first full-length biography reveals a man possessed of the idealism and promise, as well as the prejudices and follies, of his age, a man who sensed the revolutionary and liberating potential of radical democracy but was unable to acknowledge the racial barriers it had to cross to fulfill its promise. Sure to be welcomed by scholars of the Jacksonian era and others interested in nineteenth-century American history, John L. O'Sullivan and His Times presents an in-depth examination of O'Sullivan's ideas as they were expressed in the Democratic Review and other newspapers and literary magazines that he edited. O'Sullivan was a crusader whose efforts to end capital panishment came within a hair's breadth of ending hanging in New York; an editor who called down the w
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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A History of the United States
Author: Edward Channing
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Catalogue of Pamphlets in the King
Author: University of Aberdeen. Library
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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A History of the United States: The war for southern independence
Author: Edward Channing
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London
Author: Royal Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
Author: Middle Temple (London, England). Library
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society
Author: Law Society (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1096
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