Civil War Senator William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic |
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| Author:
| Cook, Robert J. |
| Series title: | Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8071-3707-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher: | LSU Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $48.00 |
Book Description:
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One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of the Whig Party during the Kansas-Nebraska crisis and played a formative role in the development of the Republican Party. In this richly textured and fast-paced biography, Robert J. Cook...
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One of the most talented and influential American politicians of the nineteenth century, William Pitt Fessenden (1806-1869) helped devise Union grand strategy during the Civil War. A native of Maine and son of a fiery New England abolitionist, he served in the United States Senate as a member of the Whig Party during the Kansas-Nebraska crisis and played a formative role in the development of the Republican Party. In this richly textured and fast-paced biography, Robert J. Cook charts Fessenden's rise to power and probes the potent mix of political ambition and republican ideology which impelled him to seek a place in the U.S. Senate at a time of rising tension between North and South.