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Calhoun
American Heretic
by Robert Elder
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A social and political biography of John C. Calhoun, a vice president, cabinet officer and senator from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century.
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constitutionalism, free trade, nullification, politics, slavery, tariffs, New York Times reviewed, Calhoun, john c. (john caldwell), 1782-1850, Legislators, united states, Vice-presidents, united states, United states, politics and government, 1815-1861Places
South Carolina, Washington D.C.Times
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"By his own interpretation of its history, John C. Calhoun was obrn before the Union."
Table of Contents
| Preface | xi | |
| 1 | The People with No Name | 1 |
| 2 | Educations | 21 |
| 3 | The Science of Law | 44 |
| 4 | "I Am Your True Lover, John C. Calhoun" | 61 |
| 5 | "The Road That All Great Nations Have Trod" | 83 |
| 6 | "The Great Gun of the Party" | 99 |
| 7 | "Let Us Conquer Space" | 123 |
| 8 | Secretary of Improvement and Empire | 151 |
| 9 | "To the Western Confines of the Continent" | 174 |
| 10 | "I Am with the People, ad Shall Remain So" | 198 |
| 11 | "The Impression, That I Acted Under the Force of Destiny" | 218 |
| 12 | "There Shall Be at Least One Free State" | 253 |
| 13 | "I Think, I See My Way Clearly on the Slave Question" | 291 |
| 14 | "It I(s Our Thermopylae" | 317 |
| 15 | "Dangerous and Despotic Doctrines" | 344 |
| 16 | "Thou Art the Man" | 412 |
| 18 | "Ours Is the Government of the White Man" | 440 |
| 19 | The Pillar of Fire | 477 |
| Epilogue | 525 | |
| Acknowledgments | 547 | |
| Notes | 551 | |
| Index | 623 |
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- Created August 26, 2020
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| September 21, 2021 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| June 25, 2021 | Edited by frstndlstlns | added toc |
| June 25, 2021 | Edited by frstndlstlns | added description |
| March 29, 2021 | Edited by dlsmith28677 | Added new cover |
| August 26, 2020 | Created by ImportBot | Imported from Better World Books record. |