Author: Claude Moore Fuess
Publisher: Hamden, Conn., Archon Books
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: N. V. Baker
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Baker provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history and structure of the U.S. Attorney General. She documents how attorneys general have differed in their responses, seeing themselves as either advocates of the president or neutral expounders of the law. She focuses in particular on Robert Kennedy, Edwin Meese, Elliot Richardson, Griffin Bell, Robert Jackson, Edward Levi, A. Mitchell Palmer, and Roger Taney.
Author: Newburyport (Mass.). City Council
Publisher:
Published: 1879
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George H Stevens
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781020915734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume contains speeches and tributes given in memory of Caleb Cushing, the American diplomat and lawyer who served in several high-level positions during the 19th century. Published in 1879, this book offers insight into the life and achievements of one of America's most prominent statesmen. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: John M. Belohlavek
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780873388412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"First as a spokesman for the Whig and then the Democratic parties, Cushing served in Congress, as the minister to China, as a general in the Mexican War, as U.S. attorney general, and as a legal advisor and diplomatic operative for Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant. With an unharnessed mind and probing intellect, Cushing inspired and infuriated contemporaries with his strident views on such topics as race relations and gender roles, national expansion, and the legitimacy of secession. While his positions generated arguments and garnered enemies, his views often mirrored those of many Americans. His abilities and talents sustained him in public service and made him one of the most outstanding and fascinating figures of the era."--Jacket.
Author: Richard L. Kagan
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780252027246
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Setting aside the pastiche of bullfighters and flamenco dancers that has dominated the U.S. image of Spain for more than a century, this innovative volume uncovers the roots of Spanish studies to explain why the diversity, vitality, and complexity of Spanish history and culture have been reduced in U.S. accounts to the equivalent of a tourist brochure. Spurred by the complex colonial relations between the United States and Spain, the new field of Spanish studies offered a way for the young country to reflect a positive image of itself as a democracy, in contrast with perceived Spanish intolerance and closure. Spain in America investigates the political and historical forces behind this duality, surveying the work of the major nineteenth-century U.S. Hispanists in the fields of history, art history, literature, and music. A distinguished panel of contributors offers fresh examinations of the role of U.S. writers, especially Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in crafting a wildly romantic vision of Spain. They examine the views of such scholars as William H. Prescott and George Ticknor, who contrasted the "failure" of Spanish history with U.S. exceptionalism. Other essays explore how U.S. interests in Latin America consistently colored its vision of Spain and how musicology in the United States, dominated by German émigrés, relegated Spanish music to little more than a footnote. Also included are profiles of the philanthropist Archer Mitchell Huntington and the pioneering art historians Georgiana Goddard King and Arthur Kingsley Porter, who spearheaded U.S. interest in the architecture and sculpture of medieval Spain. Providing a much-needed look at the development and history of Hispanism, Spain in America opens the way toward confronting and modifying reductive views of Spain that are frozen in another time.
Author: Sister Michael Catherine Hodgson
Publisher:
Published: 1955
Total Pages: 278
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