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100 1 $aOhrt, Wallace.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79073991
245 10 $aDefiant peacemaker :$bNicholas Trist in the Mexican War /$cby Wallace Ohrt.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aCollege Station, Tex. :$bTexas A&M University Press,$c1997.
263 $a9711
300 $axi, 190 pages ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aElma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ;$vno. 17
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aNicholas Trist (1800-74) was one of those rare public figures who really lived dangerously, prepared to risk everything for principle. Generally unknown today, and slighted or scorned when mentioned at all, he was a man of importance in his time, for he defied a presidential recall order and negotiated with Mexico the treaty that won for the United States the vast Southwest.
520 8 $aTrist was closely acquainted with the great ones of his time - including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Andrew Jackson - and was esteemed by those who really knew him. This well-written biography of Trist is also, then, a story of many of the important people and movements of his time.
520 8 $aTrist was an idealist, more uncompromising than his idol, Thomas Jefferson (who was also the grandfather of Trist's wife). Trist was respected by many of his contemporaries and, surprisingly for a man of his unbending character, befriended by many. Yet there were many who despised him. On two unrelated occasions, eight years apart, he stood as the most controversial figure in America. In some ways he was his own worst enemy, as Ohnt skillfully shows.
520 8 $aAn astonishing haughtiness in a man of relatively modest station enabled him to condescend to presidents, quarrel with military commanders, and hurl insults at the House of Lords. Yet the diplomats with whom he worked in Mexico admired and respected him for his unfailing patience and courtesy under the most trying conditions. Ultimately, his career was thoroughly destroyed by its one great, defining achievement: the negotiation of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the peace that ended the Mexican War.
520 8 $aOhrt demonstrates that Trist's quintessential character can best be distilled in a tribute he paid to another: "He is ... a true lover of justice.".
520 8 $aSources for this eminently readable biography include the voluminous correspondence of the Trist and Randolph families of Virginia, biographies of notables mentioned, and the most respected histories of the times and events. Those interested in the diplomacy of the era and especially of the U.S.-Mexican War will read with interest the story of the intrigues and rivalries behind the political and military activities of the war, which are vividly presented here.
600 10 $aTrist, Nicholas Philip,$d1800-1874.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85162310
650 0 $aDiplomats$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102280
650 0 $aMexican War, 1846-1848$xPeace.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zMexico.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100059
651 0 $aMexico$xForeign relations$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100304
830 0 $aElma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ;$vno. 17.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95031882
852 00 $bglx$hE415.9.T84$iO39 1997