James Henry Hammond and the Old South A Design for Mastery

Name: James Henry Hammond and the Old South A Design for Mastery
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ISBN: 9780807112489

ISBN-10: 0807112488

ISBN-13: 9780807112489

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Authors: Drew Gilpin Faust

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From his birth in 1807 to his death in 1864 as Sherman's troops marched in triumph toward South Carolina, James Henry Hammond witnessed the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom of the Old South. Planter, politician, and partisan of slavery, Hammond built a career for himself that in its breadth and ambition provides a composite portrait of the civilization in which he flourished.A long-awaited biography, Drew Gilpin Faust's James Henry Hammond and the Old South reveals the South Carolina planter who was at once characteristic of his age and unique among men of his time. Of humble origins, Hammond set out to conquer his society, to make himself a leader and a spokesman for the Old South.…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication date: 7/1/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books include<i>Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War</i> and <i>The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South.</i>