John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography (Southern Biography)

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 than previous historians have portrayed. This masterly retelling of John C. Calhoun's eventful life is a model biography. more

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3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-30-2009; A Radical Sectionalist; John Calhoun was one of the most accomplished politicians of his time. For forty years he served the Nation as Senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of State and twice as Vice President. He entered Congress an ardent nationalist, one of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-19-2000; Scarlett O'Hara's Favorite Senator; In his opening remarks John Niven makes the promise that he would not undertake psychoanalysis of John C.Calhoun, Much to his credit, he is true to his word. What Niven has delivered is an eminently readable and straightforward account...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-17-1999; A creative biography; John Niven, professor emeritus of American History at the Claremont Graduate School, has shed new light on a statesman that history has long viewed as just another inconsistent headstrong Southerner, John C. Calhoun. Niven convinces...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-29-1999; Not well versed in matters Calhounian.; Prof. Niven's book fails on a number of counts, but mainly on that of familiarity with the sources of Calhoun's political thought. For example, in describing Calhoun's indebtedness to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Oct-19-2000; Scarlett O'Hara's Favorite Senator; In his opening remarks John Niven makes the promise that he would not undertake psychoanalysis of John C.Calhoun, Much to his credit, he is true to his word. What Niven has delivered is an eminently readable and straightforward account...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-30-2009; A Radical Sectionalist; John Calhoun was one of the most accomplished politicians of his time. For forty years he served the Nation as Senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of State and twice as Vice President. He entered Congress an ardent nationalist, one of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-29-1999; Not well versed in matters Calhounian.; Prof. Niven's book fails on a number of counts, but mainly on that of familiarity with the sources of Calhoun's political thought. For example, in describing Calhoun's indebtedness to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798,...; read full review | report as inappropriate