Title: Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia :
Authors: Schott, Thomas Edwin,
Date: 1988
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,
Physical description: xx, 552 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: E
Contents: Child of despair -- Made to figure in a storm -- Political apprenticeship -- Riding the Texas "hobby" -- A whole catalog of evils -- Young Indian -- Out of party and into the maelstrom -- Stumping for the Union -- New wine and old bottles -- The greatest glory of my life -- With his principles on his forehead -- The devil to pay in Kansas -- Little balm and much outrage : Dred Scott, Buchanan, and Walker -- The fraud was glaring : Lecompton and its aftermath -- A damn strange disease -- We are going to destruction as fast as we can -- Heroic patience -- My dear sir, it is the principle involved -- A towering passion -- Malus, pejor, pessimus -- The man no longer -- An old man from another time.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Confederate States of America--Politics and government.; Georgia--Politics and government--1775-1865.; Governors--Georgia--Biography.; Legislators--United States--Biography.; Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883.; United States. Congress. House--Biography.; Vice-presidents--Confederate States of America--Biography.