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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cherokee Publishing Company (April 1, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 620 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0877971854
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0877971856
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.17 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches

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James

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Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2015

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It's pathetic that folks give one-star reviews to biographies they haven't read simply because they don't like the subject. What are you, eight? Grow up.

This is a masterful, monumental Pulitzer-winning biography of a major figure in American history. That it is ranked below much weaker - if not unmentionable - efforts is shameful.

Coit has a sound grasp on American history, making this biography very much a "life and times." Unlike many other biographers, who misunderstand or misrepresent Calhoun's challenging political philosophy, Coit places it in its historical context and presents it fairly. As an added bonus, by illuminating Calhoun's warm private life, Coit does much to dispel the image of the "cast iron man."

For more on Calhoun's political philosophy, see Lee Cheek's "Calhoun and Popular Rule."
For more on Calhoun's life and times, see Merrill Peterson's "The Great Triumvirate."
For a sampling of Calhoun's writings and speeches, see Clyde Wilson's "Essential Calhoun."

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J. Calhoun

Best & most readable account of JCC

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2018

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Cannot write a comprehensive review at this point as I am only in chapter one, although I have browsed through the entire book.

Cannot tell the book from new (it has been out of print for some time), so the relatively high cost is well justified. Extremely readable.

I had been led to believe that JCC was a fearsome, iconoclastic grouch. This ancestor of mine was much more complex and dimensional. It’s also exciting to read of historic events occurring at places in SC that are familiar to me. This era has never been better explained and relates well to our present.

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Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2017

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excellent picture of US in first half of 19th century

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Don Swanson

High School history tells us that Calhoun was a leader ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2014

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High School history tells us that Calhoun was a leader in the South calling for the nullifcatioin of laws the he did not think the South should follow. He was more that that. However, if you have any interest in getting a clear view of history and how this man contributed to the making of America you need to read of this American.

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Great writing! Insightful too.

Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2019

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Simple a well written book. I enjoy the author’s style and the fact that references are provided. A good read all around.

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Well written insight into a. Seminal American political thinker. I thoroughly. Enjoyed this book and recommend it without reservation. Enough

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Calhoun!

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Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2015

Although this book reads like an effort to salvage the discredited reputation of one of the founding theorists of the Democratic coalition, it seems far from facile or unscholarly. There is evidence of considerable research and analysis behind it. Calhoun comes across as the brilliant, driven, forceful, combattive man that he was reputed to be. Like Jefferson, he was a champion of the loose form of political compact that improved upon the feeble, unworkable Articles of Confederation. The author emphasizes Calhoun's opposition to the Industrial Revolution, and his insistence that neither it nor its burdensome tariff, be imposed on those who reject it.
From numerous elements of primitive Southern culture which he prized, Calhoun plucked slaveholding as most likely to motivate the entire South to unite against Northern impingement; this contrast also served to galvanize contrary Yankee opinion. His theory, maintained by convoluted sophistry, that humane paternalistic enslavement was more congenial and salutary to the uneducated multitude than was the risky freedom and contemporary squalor of factory employment is showcased in the book. Reinforcement of slaveholding's grip on the South is ascribed to counterproductive Abolitionist agitation, rather than the reverse. Calhoun distanced himself from every city except Washington, D.C. (a rudimentary spread-out rural town at the time). His primary sin in the author's view, his distaste for the very democratic rabble fundamental to Andrew Jackson's (more precisely, Martin Van Buren's) founding of the party, is acknowledged but mitigated by stressing the Calvinist and Cavalier notion that the ill-informed and emotional should be dependent upon their betters (i.e. the Leader, the Man on Horseback). Calhoun believed that it is illegitimate for the majority of States to impose their will on the remaining minority of States, as theorized by John Locke, contrary to the standard Puritan belief in enforcing a uniform morality throughout the entire civil jurisdiction. His solution was to organize an assembly of minority factions (Appalachian farmers, Whig planters, Midwestern frontiersmen, and factory wagearners) who had some interests in common, to combine power to turn the tables on the oppressive plurality of outnumbered Yankee industrialists in retribution, a strategy which James Madison had thought preposterous.
Calhoun evidently considered himself indispensable, setting dire forces in motion whose outcome his mortality did not permit him to control. This recognition combined with his Puritan background to produce a decidedly fatalistic vision, which proved accurate in both timing and results.

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Biographie de qualité exceptionnelle

Reviewed in France on December 2, 2021

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La biographie d'un des défenseurs de l'Amérique originale présentée de manière contextualisée et objective. L'ouvrage permet de comprendre et mettre en perspective les décisions qui ont conduit un homme qui a sacrifié sa vie et sa carrière au profit d'une cause. Une cause qui lie l'homme à sa terre et non au capital. Calhoun est sans nul doute le plus brillant théoricien de la "lost cause". Ce livre est une bouffée d'oxygène phénoménale pour tous ceux qui se refusent d'adhérer au politiquement correct, cancel culture ou autre wokisme qui nous coupent de nos racines... Ce livre est un vrai chef d'œuvre et le Pulitzer décerné à M. Coit en 1951 est largement mérité.

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