Forgotten firebrand
Subtitle: James Redpath and the making of nineteenth-century America
By: John McKivigan.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780801446733
Subjects: Redpath, James, -- 1833-1891; Redpath Lyceum Bureau; Social reformers -- United States -- Biography; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Abolitionists -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1877
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: The roving editor; title: The crusader of freedom; title: Echoes of Harpers Ferry; title: Commissioner plenipotentiary for Haiti; title: The radical publisher; title: Abolitionizing the South; title: The Redpath Lyceum Bureau; title: Entertainment innovator; title: The adopted Irishman; title: Jefferson Davis's ghostwriter.