American Ulysses by Ronald C. White
Damien Ober reviews American Ulysses by Ronald C. White today in Rumpus Books.
...moreDamien Ober reviews American Ulysses by Ronald C. White today in Rumpus Books.
...moreDamien Ober reviews John Ferling’s JEFFERSON AND HAMILTON today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
...moreOn August 3, 1846, the day Abraham Lincoln won election to his only term in Congress, the gangly, 37-year-old country lawyer was unknown outside his Illinois district. America was a country of 28 states, largely unsettled west of the Mississippi. Political divisions were framed by non-regional differences on economic issues—tariffs, the national bank, the federal […]
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