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A planter, politician, and military leader influential in the affairs of both South Carolina and Texas, James Hamilton so declined in reputation during the last twenty years of his life that his home state refused to acknowledge him when he died. Robert Tinkler's biography conveys the enormous drama, dignity, and pathos of Hamilton's life.

Offers a thorough biography of George Washington Carver, including in-depth details of his relationships with friends, colleagues, supporters, and those he loved. In pursuit of the man behind the historical figure, Christina Vella discovers an unassuming intellectual with a quirky sense of humour, striking eccentricities, and unwavering faith.

In this sweeping biography, Elaine Breslaw examines the life of Dr Alexander Hamilton (1712-1756), a highly educated Scottish physician who emigrated to Maryland in 1738. From an elite European family, Hamilton was immediately confronted with the relatively primitive social milieu of the New World.

The name Daniel Boone conjures up the image of an illiterate patriot who settled Kentucky and killed countless Indians. In this welcome book, Meredith Mason Brown separates the real Daniel Boone from the many fables that surround him, revealing a man far more complex - and far more interesting - than his legend.

This elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman's life - Mary Greenhow Lee (1819-1907). Lee's personal history is an intriguing story. It is also an account of the complex social relations that characterized nineteenth-century life.

Elite, personable, and persuasive, Edward Douglass White served on the United States Supreme Court for twenty-seven years. During his tenure, he significantly influenced American public law. Robert Highsaw' s extensive judicial biography stresses White's constitutional thought and philosophy.

Cutting across the Bourbon Era, the Populist Revolt, and the Progressive Movement, Hoke Smith's career gave expression to the Southern politics of his generation. In tis volume, Dewey Grantham examines in detail the central role of this leader as a key to the better understanding of the political mind of the New South.

In a region famous for its flamboyant politicians, Earl K. Long was one of the most flamboyant of them all. This biography of the former Louisiana governor explores his controversial life-style and his strong family ties, his raw humour and his political savvy, his abuse of power and his accomplishments in civil rights and public services.

Although he was one of the most important African American political leaders during the last decade of the nineteenth century, George Henry White has been one of the least remembered. In this exhaustively researched biography, Benjamin Justesen rescues from obscurity the fascinating story of this compelling figure's life and accomplishments.

Much existing literature about Confederate general John Bankhead Magruder contains incorrect information. In this exhaustive biography that reflects more than thirty years of painstaking archival research, Thomas Settles remedies the many factual inaccuracies surrounding this enigmatic man and his military career.

Though remembered largely as Andrew Jackson's nephew, Andrew Jackson Donelson was a significant figure in nineteenth-century America: a politician, planter, diplomat, newspaper editor, and vice-presidential candidate. In this biography, Mark Cheathem explores both Donelson's political contributions and his complex relationship with Andrew Jackson.

Offers the first biography of one of Louisiana's most intriguing nineteenth-century politicians and a founder of Tulane University. Highly readable and thoroughly researched, Mary Gorton McBride's absorbing biography illuminates in dramatic fashion the life and times of a unique Louisianan.

Dennis Boman's full-scale account of Hamilton Gamble's life tells the little-known story of a prominent frontier lawyer who became chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court and boldly dissented in the infamous Dred Scott decision.

Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with an array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan's multifaceted personal networks in both the South and the North.

This biography, based on examination of the Ellender Papers and extensive research in other primary and secondary sources, including interviews with people who knew Ellender during various stages of his lengthy career, makes an important contribution to our understanding of Louisiana and national politics during much of this century.

Drawing extensively from primary source material, much of it previously unexamined, Editor for Justice makes an important contribution to journalism and to southern, Jewish, and black history. Readers will treasure the depiction of an extraordinary champion of human rights.

Offers the first critical biography of the Confederate general who commanded the largest theatre of the Civil War, the Trans-Mississippi Department, and who held the same important command post longer than any other officer on either side.

In Moses Levy of Florida, C.S. Monaco offers a radical reappraisal of this complex and formerly underestimated figure, bringing to light for the first time the full and fascinating extent of his remarkable contributions to nineteenth-century America.

The legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines (1804?-1885) has all the trappings of classic melodrama - a lost heir, a missing will, an illicit relationship, a questionable marriage, a bigamous husband, and a murder.

In the first comprehensive biography of Albert Gore Sr, Kyle Longley has produced an incisive portrait of a significant American political leader and an arresting narrative of the shaping of a southern and American political tradition.

First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams' P. G. T. Beauregard is universally regarded as "the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy's always dramatic, often perplexing" general (Chicago Tribune).

Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-1886) is known today for her excellent firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America. Elisabeth Muhlenfeld's expert biography utilises Mrs. Chesnut's autobiographical writings, her papers, and those of her family, as well as published sources.

In this highly acclaimed and enduring biography, John Alden traces the interwoven histories of George Washington and the nation he helped to create, defend, and guide toward the future. Alden revisits the major events of Washington's personal and professional life, but the core of the biography concerns Washington's leadership roles.

John Brown Gordon's career of prominent public service spanned four of America's most turbulent decades. Utilizing newspapers, scattered manuscript collections, and official records, Ralph Eckert presents a critical biography of Gordon that analyses all areas of his career.

In the first full-scale biography of John C. Calhoun in almost half a century, John Niven skillfully presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Niven shows Calhoun to have been at once a more consistent politician and a far more complex human being than previous historians have thought.

Rising from humble origins in the middle Georgia cotton belt, Alexander H. Stephens (1812-1883) became one of the South's leading politicians and lawyers. Thomas Schott's scholarly biography analyses the interplay between the public and private Stephens and between state and national politics during his contradictory career.

The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. In this full-length biography, Robert May reveals Quitman to have been an ambitious but relatively stable insider who reluctantly advocated secession because of a despondency over slavery's future.

A noted southern Baptist preacher, educator, and secessionist, Basil Manly was selected to serve as chaplain to the provisional Confederate Congress. In this, the first full biography of Manly, A. James Fuller analyses the life and career of this working minister, illustrating the central role of religion in the formation of the Confederacy.