Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse

by Lee Cheek, H. Lee Cheek Jr., H. Lee Cheek

Book Overview

Although John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) remains one of the major figures in American political thought, many of his critics have tried to discredit him as merely a Southern partisan whose ideas were obsolete even during his lifetime. In Calhoun and Popular Rule, H. Lee Cheek, Jr., attempts to correct such misconceptions by presenting Calhoun as an original political thinker who devoted his life to the recovery of a "proper mode of popular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826215483
• ISBN13: 9780826215482
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary