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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 4184 Senator James Murray Mason Defender of the Old South, by Robert W. Young (read 28 June 2006) Mason was born Nov. 3, 1798 and was US Senator from Virginia from Jan 21, 1847 till he withdrew from the Senate on Mar 28, 1861. The Confederates sent him to England and he was a central figure in the Trent affair, but Lincoln released him and he went to Europe and spent the war there trying to help the rebels. This book is really well researched and there is not a dull page. It is fully footnoted with an excellent bibliography. I have read some on the Civil War times but I found this told me things I did not know. Mason had really outrageous views, e.g., he held slavery was a great good for both races. The author does not editorialize so occasions for reprobating Mason and his objectionable views are omitted. But the ending is great--the good guys win the war and Mason never lives to see how the South reversed the war's outcome after 1877. This book was a highlight of the month's reading. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A slaveholding aristocrat and a powerful politician whose ideas and actions helped to shape the antebellum and Civil War periods, James Murray Mason built a career that encompassed virtually all of the critical events and issues of his day. In the first full-scale biography of Mason, Robert W. Young traces the fascinating life of power politics led by this quintessential representative of the Old South. Through his examination of the conservative causes that Mason consistently championed - strict Constitutional interpretation, states' rights, and slaveryYoung opens a window onto the early-nineteenth-century southern society in which Mason lived. As Young demonstrates, Mason's rise to a position of political strength and his later humiliating fall from power paralleled the fate of the South. Between 1826 and 1861, Mason became an active member of the Virginia legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate. Young shows how thoroughly Mason's southern perspective informed his conduct in office, which included writing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and leading a Senate investigation into the insurrection at Harpers Ferry. When Virginia seceded, Mason resigned from the Senate and was named diplomatic envoy to England by Jefferson Davis. In recounting Mason's years as a diplomat, Young analyzes the infamous Trent affair, in which Mason and a fellow Confederate official were arrested on the high seas by a Union Navy captain. Young places this crisis, which was ultimately resolved in the Union's favor, within the larger context of diplomatic blunders made by the Confederacy. Finally, in chronicling Mason's disappointment in the face of the Confederacy's defeat, Young evokes the enormous sense of loss that accompanied the passing of the Old South's way of life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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