Author: Thomas Hart Benton
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Speech ... Delivered at Fayette ... Missouri ... the First of September, 1849
Author: Thomas Hart Benton
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Speech of the Hon. Thos. H. Benton, delivered at Fayette, Howard County, Missouri, on Saturday the first of September, 1849
Author: Thomas Hart BENTON (United States Senator.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Speech of the Hon. Thos. H. Benton
Author: Thomas Hart Benton
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Speech of the Hon. Thomas. H Benton
Author: Thomas Hart Benton
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Senator Benton and the People
Author: Ken Mueller
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501757555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was their first senator and served in Washington, DC, for more than thirty years. Like Andrew Jackson, with whom he had a long and complicated relationship, Benton came out of the developing western section of the young American Republic. The foremost Democratic leader in the Senate, he claimed to represent the rights of "the common man" against "monied interests" of the East. "Benton and the people," the Missourian was fond of saying, "are one and the same"—a bit of bombast that reveals a good deal about this seasoned politician who was himself a mass of contradictions. He possessed an enormous ego and a touchy sense of personal honor that led to violent results on several occasions. Yet this conflation of "the people" and their tribune raises questions not addressed in earlier biographies of Benton. Mueller provides a fascinating portrait of Senator Benton. His political character, while viewed as flawed by contemporary standards, is balanced by his unconditional devotion to his particular vision. Mueller evaluates Benton's career in light of his attitudes toward slavery, Indian removal, and the Mexican borderlands, among other topics, and reveals Benton's importance to a new generation of readers. He offers a more authentic portrait of the man than has heretofore been presented by either his detractors or his admirers.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501757555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was their first senator and served in Washington, DC, for more than thirty years. Like Andrew Jackson, with whom he had a long and complicated relationship, Benton came out of the developing western section of the young American Republic. The foremost Democratic leader in the Senate, he claimed to represent the rights of "the common man" against "monied interests" of the East. "Benton and the people," the Missourian was fond of saying, "are one and the same"—a bit of bombast that reveals a good deal about this seasoned politician who was himself a mass of contradictions. He possessed an enormous ego and a touchy sense of personal honor that led to violent results on several occasions. Yet this conflation of "the people" and their tribune raises questions not addressed in earlier biographies of Benton. Mueller provides a fascinating portrait of Senator Benton. His political character, while viewed as flawed by contemporary standards, is balanced by his unconditional devotion to his particular vision. Mueller evaluates Benton's career in light of his attitudes toward slavery, Indian removal, and the Mexican borderlands, among other topics, and reveals Benton's importance to a new generation of readers. He offers a more authentic portrait of the man than has heretofore been presented by either his detractors or his admirers.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Catalog
Author: Yale University. Library. Yale Collection of Western Americana
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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A Catalogue of Books Relating to America
Author: Edward Eberstadt & Sons
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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