A Strife of Tongues: The Compromise of 1850 and the Ideological Foundations of the American Civil War

by Stephen E. Maizlish

Book Overview

Near the end of a nine-month confrontation preceding the Compromise of 1850, Abraham Venable warned his fellow congressmen that "words become things." Indeed, in politics--then, as now--rhetoric makes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813941199
• ISBN13: 9780813941196
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"