Charles Sumner

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Charles Sumner

by David Herbert Donald ; new introduction by the author

Da Capo Press, 1996

1st Da Capo Press ed

  • alk. paper

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Charles Sumner and the coming of the Civil War

Charles Sumner and the rights of man

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A paperback edition, unabridged republication of "Charles Sumner and the coming of the Civil War", originally published: New York, 1960; and "Charles Sumner and the rights of man", originally published: New York, 1970

Includes bibliographical references and index

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}Charles Sumner (18111874), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts for two decades, was an ardent abolitionist; a founder of the Republican Party; chairman of the powerful Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1861 to 1871; chief of the Radical Republicans during the Civil War and Reconstruction; Lincoln's friend and, later, Grant's nemesis; as well as an advocate for universal equality, international peace, women's suffrage, and educational and prison reform. This edition combines for the first time Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War and Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man into one monumental biography that brings into brilliant focus the character and impact of one of the most controversial and enduring forces in American history. }

Table of Contents

  • Introduction to the Da Capo Edition
  • Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
  • A Natural Coldness
  • You Were Meant for Boston
  • The Life of Life
  • The Iron Curtain
  • An Outrageous Philanthropist
  • Let the Lines Be Drawn
  • Glacial Solitude
  • A One-Idead Abolitionist Agitator
  • The Slave of Principles
  • Outside of Any Healthy Political Organization
  • The Crime Against Kansas
  • The Vacant Chair
  • If Mr. Lincoln Stands Firm
  • Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man
  • More Than One Idea
  • Riding the Nigger Hobby
  • Remove Him!
  • Equality Before the Law
  • Making His History
  • Very Like Robespierre
  • My Name Was Dishonored
  • Life Is a Burden
  • To Fill a Patriot with Despair
  • The Massive Grievance
  • The Greatest Champion of Liberty
  • An Act of Sheet Brutality
  • He Stands on a Bridge
  • So White a Soul
  • List of Manuscript Collections & Scrapbooks Cited.

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