Silas Wright / / John Arthur Garraty.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Garraty, John Arthur,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1949]; ©1949
• Year of Publication: 1949
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 552
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; I. Young Lawyer --; II. Regency Politician --; III. Writing a "Just and Liberal" Tariff --; IV. Swamps, Bureaus, Diplomats and Patched Trousers --; V. Rumblings of a Distant Drum --; VI. Battle Royal with Biddle's "Monster" --; VII. The "Second Declaration of Independence" --; VIII. Washington and Albany - Victory and Defeat --; IX. Silas Takes to the Stump --; X. Tyler Saves the Day --; XI. Texas --; XII. "Who is Nero?" --; XIII. The End of Wright's "Policy of Declination" --; XIV. An Unwanted Victory --; XV. Rending Factions --; XVI. The Great Debacle: Confusion Twice Confounded --; XVII. Back to the Soil --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231890540; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/garr92804
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Arthur Garraty.

Shares a biography of Silas Wright, through the framework of his own letters, as a prominent politician of the Jackson era who touched upon many important personages and issues first in New York and then as a nation as a whole,.