In 1960 this volume brought accolades to the author and his subject. Today, nearly thirty years later, it has become the major biography of a man who was the incarnation of what the South wanted to secede from. A brilliant portrait of a country on the brink of war. Photos.
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In 1960 this volume brought accolades to the author and his subject. Today, nearly thirty years later, it has become the major biography of a man who was the incarnation of what the South wanted to secede from. A brilliant portrait of a country on the brink of war. Photos.
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Good. Tight binding and unmarked except for former owner's signature on facing page. Edge of pages sun-faded. Front cover has smudged top part, 2"x3" owner nameplate on inside front cover. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very Good. Book Small quarto, softcover, VG in gray pictorial wraps. Pulitzer prize-winning biography of Charles Sumner, the fiery anti-slavey senator and chief of the Repulican Party's radical wing who played a crucial role in the national crisis that culminated in the Civil War. --the senator from Massachusetts; a complex, brilliant man some hold responsible for beginning the Civil War; 392 pages.
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Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. xxiii, 416pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Tight and superb first of this softbound edition of the 1960 Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, which Robert W. Johannsen critiqued as "The first volume of what will prove to be a definitive study...." NEVINS II, 52.
