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John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography (Southern Biography)
John C Calhoun and the Price of Union A Biography - Southern Biography Author:John Niven In the first full-scale biography of Calhoun in almost fifty years, John Niven presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Skillfully blending Calhoun's public career with important elements of his private life, Niven shows Calhoun to have been at once a more consistent politician and a more complex human being t... more »han previous historians have portrayed. This masterly retelling of John C. Calhoun's eventful life is a model biography.« less