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John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
John Marshall (1755-1835) was arguably the most important judicial figure in American history. As the fourth chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from 1801 …
Democracy's Lawyer
A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (1775-1840) epitomized the ""American democrat"" who so famously fascinated Alexis de …
Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia
Winner Of The Jefferson Davis Award Rising from humble origins in the middle Georgia cotton belt, Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883) became one of the South's leading politicians …
Zachary Taylor
Considering the course his life took, one might wonder how Zachary Taylor ever came to be elected the twelfth president of the United States. According to K. Jack Bauer, Taylor …
The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis
Regarded as one of the most vocal, well-traveled, and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast …
A Jackson Man
Well researched... and well written, this work gives us Kendall, warts and all. We see the avarice, the ambition, and the contradictions of his subject.... This is biography at its …
Dr. Alexander Hamilton and Provincial America
In this sweeping biography, Elaine G. Breslaw examines the life of Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1712-1756), a highly educated Scottish physician who immigrated to Maryland in 1738. From …
Isham G. Harris of Tennessee
In 1931, when the Nashville Banner conducted a survey to determine the ""Greatest Tennesseans"" to date, the state's Confederate ""War Governor,"" Isham G. Harris (1818-1897), …
John U. Monro
In 1967, John U. Monro, dean of the college at Harvard, left his twenty-year administrative career at that prestigious university for a teaching position at Miles College - an …
A Southern Moderate in Radical Times
In A Southern Moderate in Radical Times, David I. Durham offers a comprehensive and critical appraisal of one of the South's famous dissenters. Against the backdrop of one of the …