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An edition of Salmon P. Chase (1995)

Salmon P. Chase

a biography

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Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of nineteenth-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of Reconstruction, he was the presiding officer of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Yet he was also a complex figure.

As John Niven reveals in this magisterial biography, Chase was a paradoxical blend of idealism and ambition. If he stood for the highest moral purposes - the freedom and equality of all mankind - these lofty motives failed to mask a thirst for power so deeply ingrained in his character that it drove away many who shared his principles, but invariably mistrusted his motives.

  1. What emerges is a portrait of a tragic figure, whose high qualities of heart and mind and whose many achievements were ultimately tarnished by an often unseemly quest for power. It is a striking look at an eminent statesman as well as a revealing glimpse into political life of nineteenth-century America, all set against a background of the antislavery movement, the Civil War, and the turmoil of Reconstruction.
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576

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Salmon P. Chase: a biography
1995, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [459]-528) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
977.1/03/092
Library of Congress
E415.9.C4 N58 1995, E415.9.C4N58 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 546 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
576

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Open Library
OL1090322M
Internet Archive
salmonpchasebiog0000nive
ISBN 10
0195046536
ISBN 13
9780195046533
LCCN
94014465
OCLC/WorldCat
30110173
Library Thing
797829
Goodreads
524507

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