Rhett
Subtitle: the turbulent life and times of a fire-eater
By: William C. Davis.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 702
Subjects: Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876.; United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.; Legislators -- South Carolina -- Biography.; Secession -- South Carolina.; Legislators -- United States -- Biography.; Statesmen -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.; South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.; Confederate States of America -- Politics and government.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "William C. Davis's biography of Robert Barnwell Rhett provides a definitive picture of South Carolina's most prominent secessionist and arguably the best known in the nation during the two decades leading up to the Civil War. Dubbed the "Father of Secession," Rhett attached himself to South Carolina statesman John C. Calhoun, but grew more zealous than his mentor on the secession issue.

Rhett first raised the possibility of secession in 1826, well before Calhoun adopted the notion, and would ever after hold fast to his one great idea. In this examination of Rhett's personal and political endeavors, Davis draws upon many newly found sources to reveal the extremism that would make and mar Rhett's adult life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [671]-689) and index.