Opis: History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) - Schouler James

Excerpt from History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution, Vol. 7

I seem to have been borne onward by some invisible current, where I had repeatedly thought myself in port. Good general health, abundant leisure, an active mind and confirmed habits of industry, conjoined with a special physical infirmity whose gradual increase drives me into social seclusion - this must be my explanation for taking up again after a long interval the historical pen twice laid aside.

In the preface to my sixth volume I stated my reasons for issuing a narrative of the Civil War. And now, at the lapse of fourteen more years, I add a seventh volume to cover the Reconstruction Period, meaning that this publication shall be the last. Its composition came about quite casually. When President Johnson's posthumous manuscripts were placed in the Library of Congress, about eight years ago, I made a careful study of them, stating the general results in published articles. The conviction I then gained that injustice had been done to Johnson in the popular estimate of his official career was strongly confirmed when, in 1910-11, the Diary of Secretary Welles relating to that Executive term appeared in print in the Atlantic Monthly. I now carefully studied the whole record of that term for myself, and as a result felt deeply that this much maligned President needed a vindication, as against other historical writers; and furthermore, that the vindicator ought to be myself. Hence was prepared a course of lectures which I gave recently at the Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities; and from those lectures developed the present narrative of the Johnson administration.

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Szczegóły: History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) - Schouler James

Nazwa: History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Schouler James
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330415399
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 424
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
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Recenzje: History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) - Schouler James