Author: Nathaniel Prentiss BanksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Oration delivered before the fire companies of Waltham, July 4, 1842
Author: Nathaniel Prentiss BanksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
An Oration, Delivered Before the Neptune and Boyden Fire Companies, and the Citizens of Waltham, July 4, 1842
Author: Nathaniel Prentiss BanksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Pretense Of Glory
Author: James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807151254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In this first modern biography of Nathaniel P. Banks, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., reveals the complicated and contradictory nature of the man who called himself the "fighting politician." Despite a lack of formal education, family connections, and personal fortune, Banks (1816--1884) advanced from the Massachusetts legislature to the governorship to the U.S. Congress and Speaker of the House. He learned early in his political career that the pretext of conviction can be more important than the conviction itself, and he practiced a politics of expedience, espousing popular beliefs but never defining beliefs of his own. A leader in the new Republican party, he developed a reputation as a compelling orator and a politician with a bright future. At the onset of the Civil War, Lincoln appointed Banks a major general, and, as Hollandsworth shows, the same pretext of conviction that served Banks so well in politics proved disastrous on the battlefield. He suffered resounding defeats in the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, the Battle of Cedar Mountain, and the Red River Campaign. Illuminating the personal characteristics that stalled the promise of Banks's early political career and contributed to his dismal record as a commanding officer, Hollandsworth demonstrates how Banks's obsessive pretense of glory prevented him from achieving its reality.
King of Louisiana, 1862-1865, and Other Government Work
Author: Raymond H. BanksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
A Checklist of American Imprints for ...
Author: Oration, Delivered at New London, Before the New London Washington Total Abstinence Society, July 4th, 1842
Author: Oration: Delivered Before the Cherryfield Washington Temperance Society, July 4, 1842
Author: Essex R. LivingstonProminent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Author: Ellen Douglas LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Doolittle Family in America
Author: William Frederick DoolittlePublisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN: 9780344989230
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
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