The Civil War Political Tradition: Ten Portraits of Those Who Formed It

by Paul D. Escott

Modeling his latest book on Richard Hofstadter's 1948 classic The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, the renowned historian Paul Escott has composed ten concise but deeply learned and incisive biographies of key Americans in the years leading up to the Civil War. Escott profiles Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081394967X
• ISBN13: 9780813949673
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher