Passion and principle

John and Jessie Frémont, the couple whose power, politics, and love shaped nineteenth-century America

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Passion and principle

John and Jessie Frémont, the couple whose power, politics, and love shaped nineteenth-century America

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She was the daughter of powerful Missouri politician Thomas Hart Benton and was a savvy political operator who played confidante and advisor to the inner circle of the highest political powers in the country. He was a key figure in western exploration and California's first senator, and became the first presidential candidate for the Republican Party--and the first candidate to challenge slavery. Both shaped their times and were far ahead of it, but their story has never fully been told. Thanks in part to a deep-seated family quarrel between Jessie's father and the couple, John and Jessie were eclipsed and opposed by some of the most mythic characters of their era, not least Abraham Lincoln. Historian Sally Denton restores the reputations of John and Jessie and places them where they belong--at the center of our country's history.--From publisher description.

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Passion and principle: John and Jessie Frémont, the couple whose power, politics, and love shaped nineteenth-century America
2007, Bloomsbury, Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
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Table of Contents

John 1813-1840
Jessie 1824-1840
The pathfinder and his wife 1840-1844
Bear flag 1845-1848
Gold 1849-1855
Free speech, free soil, free men, Frémont 1855-1857
War 1857-1862
Retreat 1862-1902

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [428]-440) and index

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Biography

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Library of Congress
E415.9.F8 D46 2007

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xiii, 460 p., [16] p. of plates :
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460

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OL17227870M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1596910194
ISBN 13
9781596910195
LCCN
2007002000
OCLC/WorldCat
80019926
Library Thing
2702915
Goodreads
730850

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