Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing & the Shattering of the UnionKent State University Press, 2005 - 482 من الصفحات One of the most colorful, controversial, and misunderstood public figures of the 19th century "The most hated man in New England,"as critics dubbed him on the eve of the Civil War, Caleb Cushing, brash and controversial, was perhaps the last of 19th-century America's renaissance figures. Poet and politician, essayist and diplomat, general and lawyer, this multidimensional scion of a Newburyport, Massachusetts, mercantile family moved in and out of positions of power and influence for more than fifty years. First as a spokesman for the Whig and then the Democratic Parties, Cushing served in Congress, as the minister to China, as a general in the Mexican War, as U.S. attorney general, and as a legal adviser and diplomatic operative for Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant. With an unharnessed mind and probing intellect, Cushing inspired and infuriated contemporaries with his strident views on such topics as race relations and gender roles, national expansion and the legitimacy of secession. While his positions generated arguments and garnered enemies, his views often mirrored those of many Americans. His abilities and talents sustained him in public service and made him one of the most outstanding and fascinating figures of the era. Biographer John Belohlavek delivers a work of importance and originality to specialists in the areas of mid-nineteenth-century political, legal, and diplomatic history as well as to those interested in New England history, antebellum gender relations, civil-military relations, and Mexican War studies. |
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... foreign trade , the town faced economic ruin . Shipbuilding collapsed from twelve thousand tons in 1810 to one thousand tons by 1813 , while exports fell from a pre - embargo $ 781,000 to less than $ 12,000 a year.2 The end of the war ...
... would evolve into a fast - track state and then a national political career — now seemed cloudy . He began to reassess his future.12 S TWO Foreign Adventures and Congressional Ventures , 1827-1834 Perhaps 24 BROKEN GLASS.
... foreign travel . The next decade would be an emotional roller coaster . Europe had long beckoned and Cushing eagerly yielded to the intellectual and cultural call of the continent . His multiyear sojourn with Caroline was likely the ...
... . " Only the cigar. The Cushing homestead at 98 High Street , Newburyport . Historical Society of Old Newbury . A church - steeple - view of Newburyport , 1839. FOREIGN ADVENTURES AND CONGRESSIONAL VENTURES , 1827-1834 27.
... which law , oratory , politics , lan- guage , and the theater would be critically calculated and integrated . By January 1829 he had settled on a travel plan . FOREIGN ADVENTURES AND CONGRESSIONAL VENTURES , 1827-1834 31.
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Battling the British Lion and the American Fox 18371840 | 88 |
Tyler and the Corporals Guard 18411843 | 114 |
The Road to China 18431844 | 150 |
The Warrior of Manifest Destiny 18451848 | 181 |
The Doughface Democrat 18481853 | 210 |
The Most Unpopular Man in New England 18571861 | 283 |
From Massachusetts Exile to Washington Insider 18611869 | 316 |
The Diplomat Reemerges 18691879 | 342 |
Conclusions | 369 |
Notes | 384 |
Bibliography | 459 |
Index | 473 |
The Power Broker Attorney General 18531857 | 242 |