Democracy's lawyer : Felix Grundy of the Old Southwest /
A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (17751840) epitomized the American democrat who so famously fascinated Alexis de Tocqueville. Born and reared on the isolated frontier, Grundy rose largely by his own ability to become the Old Southwest©s greatest c...
| Основен автор: | Heller, J. Roderick 1937- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Серия: |
Southern biography series.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=332170 |
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Democracy's lawyer. |
Съдържание:
- pt. I. Frontier roots. The Great Road
- The dark and bloody ground
- Education on the frontier
- pt. II. Kentucky. Felix Grundy, Esquire
- Political beginnings
- Circuit court reform
- Grundy and Clay
- Chief justice
- Greenville Springs
- pt. III. Tennessee. Tennessee and Congress
- War hawk
- Congress at war
- Return to Nashville
- Criminal lawyer
- The panic of 1819
- Legislative leadership
- pt. IV. Jacksonian. Andrew Jackson for president
- Election to the Senate
- Jacksonian senator
- Nullification
- Reelection
- Land and slavery
- Battles with the Whigs
- Attorney General
- Twilight
- Epilogue.