James Louis Petigru
Subtitle: Southern Conservative, Southern Dissenter
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781570034916
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Biography: historical; South Carolina; Lawyers; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Political; Biography/Autobiography; Lawyers & Judges; Petigru, James Louis; Biography; Military; 1789-1863; Petigru, James Louis,
First sentence: Caught between an intense intellectual commitment to a system of justice to which the United States Constitution was essential and the physical and social realities that molded personal and public life in his native South, James Louis Petigru trod a serpentine course.