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1 Online-Ressource (377 pages)
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ISBN:
0813153670
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0813163838
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9780813153674
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9780813163833
Inhalt:
Senator from Georgia, minister to France, cabinet officer, and unsuccessful presidential candidate, William Harris Crawford was one of the major figures of the early republic. Because most of his papers were destroyed by fire during the Civil War period, however, estimates of Crawford's abilities and accomplishments have usually been based on the papers of his political adversaries -- notably John Quincy Adams -- and few men of his stature have received so little attention from historians. This first full biographical study, drawing on hundreds of documentary collections, many never used in bio
Inhalt:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Early Georgia Years; 2 In the Senate: Defender of the Bank; 3 In the Senate: Embargo or War; 4 Minister to France; 5 Secretary of War; 6 The Treasury: Organization and Administration; 7 The Second Bank and the Currency; 8 The Treasury Secretary and the Budget; 9 Presidential Adviser; 10 One-Party Presidential Politics; 11 The Last Congressional Nominating Caucus; 12 The Election of 1824; 13 The Last Georgia Years; Note on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y
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ISBN 0813112702
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mooney, Chase C. (Chase Curran), 1913-1973 William H. Crawford, 1772-1834 [Lexington] University Press of Kentucky [1974]
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Englisch
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