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Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man Kindle Edition

by David Herbert Donald (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A Pulitzer Prize winner's “magisterial” biography of the Civil War–era Massachusetts senator, a Radical Republican who fought for slavery’s abolition (The New York Times).
 
In his follow-up to Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, acclaimed historian David Herbert Donald examines the life of the Massachusetts legislator from 1860 to his death in 1874.

As a leader of the Radical Republicans, Sumner made the abolition of slavery his primary legislative focus—yet opposed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the US Constitution for not going far enough to guarantee full equality. His struggle to balance power and principle defined his career during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and Donald masterfully charts the senator’s wavering path from fiery sectarian leader to responsible party member. In a richly detailed portrait of Sumner’s role as chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Donald analyzes how the legislator brought his influence and political acumen to bear on an issue as dear to his heart as equal rights: international peace.

Authoritative and engrossing, Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man captures a fascinating political figure at the height of his powers and brings a tumultuous period in American history to vivid life.
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“Magisterial.” —The New York Times

Praise for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
“Few books can be recommended wholeheartedly to the specialist and the general reader alike. This one can.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Mr. Donald is a rarity among American historical biographers, being not merely a man of irreproachable scholarship and balance but an interesting writer, and he has given us here a study that is, on every count, superb.” —The New Yorker

“An important and most rewarding biography.” —American Historical Review

“A triumph of scholarship . . . Donald has examined everything of any importance of or about Sumner—but it is much more, it is biographic art couched in prose of clarity and grace.” —The New Leader

About the Author

David Herbert Donald (1920–2009) was an American historian and the author of many books on the Civil War era, including Lincoln (1995), a New York Times bestseller widely regarded as the definitive biography of the US president. Donald twice won the Pulitzer Prize, for Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War (1960) and Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe (1987), and served as the Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University. His other notable works include the influential essay collection Lincoln Reconsidered (1956); Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (1970), the second volume in his acclaimed biography of the antislavery statesman; and Liberty and Union (1978), a comprehensive analysis of the American scene from 1845 to 1890.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BD0GPFO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (March 22, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 22, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4562 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 827 pages
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4.0 out of 5 stars History made
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022
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Any reader looking to understand the machinations of equal rights in America must read this book. Sumner was a great senator, flawed as we all are, who made America change from within the system.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good historical appraisal of this great American
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Very good historical appraisal of this great American
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