Bøger af Holman Hamilton

In Two Volumes. Volume 1, Soldier Of The Republic; Volume 2, Soldier In The White House.

In Two Volumes. Volume 1, Soldier Of The Republic; Volume 2, Soldier In The White House.

The crisis facing the United States in 1850 was a dramatic prologue to the conflict that came a decade later. In this definitive study, Holman Hamilton analyzes the complex events of the anxious months from December, 1849, when the Senate debates began, until September, 1850, when Congress passed the measures.

The three Kentucky presidents -- Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis -- were profoundly shaped by their experiences in Kentucky, poised as it was on the border between the North and the South, the East and the Western Frontier.