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.
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
Fighting Politician
Author: Fred Harvey HarringtonPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512802611
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
King of Louisiana, 1862-1865, and Other Government Work
Author: Raymond H. BanksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Oration, Delivered at New London, Before the New London Washington Total Abstinence Society, July 4th, 1842
Author: An Oration, Delivered Before the Washington Benevolent Society at Cambridge, July 4, 1814
Author: Richard Henry DanaPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781342120144
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
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An Oration, Delivered Before the Mechanics' Institute, the Military, and Other Citizens of Springfield, Illinois, July 4, 1838,
Author: Jesse Burgess ThomasOration: Delivered Before the Cherryfield Washington Temperance Society, July 4, 1842
Author: Essex R. LivingstonOration Delivered Before the Citizens of Attleborough, July 4th, 1853
Author: E. SanfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fourth of July orations
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description