The American Political Tradition and the Men who Made itVintage Books, 1959 - 381 pages |
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Page 73
... once began a poem with " Whereas , " and stopped . Once in his life he read a novel - this at the request of a lady who asked for his judgment on it . A friend , Mary Bates , observed that she " never heard him utter a jest , ” and ...
... once began a poem with " Whereas , " and stopped . Once in his life he read a novel - this at the request of a lady who asked for his judgment on it . A friend , Mary Bates , observed that she " never heard him utter a jest , ” and ...
Page 94
... once during his presidency hailed a soldier out of the ranks with the cry : " Bub ! Bub ! " But he was also a complex man , easily complex enough to know the value of his own sim- plicity . With his morbid compulsion for honesty he was ...
... once during his presidency hailed a soldier out of the ranks with the cry : " Bub ! Bub ! " But he was also a complex man , easily complex enough to know the value of his own sim- plicity . With his morbid compulsion for honesty he was ...
Page 116
... once , involved him in embarrassing contradictions . In northern Illinois he spoke in one vein before abolition- minded audiences , but farther south , where settlers of South- ern extraction were dominant , he spoke in another . It is ...
... once , involved him in embarrassing contradictions . In northern Illinois he spoke in one vein before abolition- minded audiences , but farther south , where settlers of South- ern extraction were dominant , he spoke in another . It is ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Liberal | 45 |
the Marx of the Master Class | 68 |
Copyright | |
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