Jean H. Baker
Auteur de Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography
A propos de l'auteur
Jean H. Baker is the author of Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists (Hill and Wang, 2005) and many other books on American history. She is a professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland.
Œuvres de Jean H. Baker
Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited (2002) — Directeur de publication — 27 exemplaires
Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in Mid 19th Century (1983) 26 exemplaires
The Politics of Continuity: Maryland Political Parties from 1858 to 1870 (The Goucher College Series) (1973) 11 exemplaires
Women and the U.S. Constitution, 1776-1920 (American Historical Association and the Institute for Constitutional… (2009) 4 exemplaires
Stevensons: Biography of an American Family 1 exemplaire
Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography: A Biography Reissue 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Forgotten Heroes: Inspiring American Portraits from Our Leading Historians (1999) — Contributeur — 109 exemplaires
"We Cannot Escape History": Lincoln and the Last Best Hope of Earth (1995) — Contributeur — 35 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Baker, Jean Hogarth Harvey
- Date de naissance
- 1933-02-09
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Études
- Johns Hopkins University
Goucher College - Professions
- historian
professor - Organisations
- Goucher College
Membres
Critiques
Briefly summarizes the case for the conclusion that Buchanan was indeed, as often supposed, the worst US President prior to 2001. In contrast to his predecessors he not only failed through omission to take the steps that would have avoided the Civil War, but acts of commission (the collusion with Taney in the Dred Scott case was only the most notorious example) were so wrong that they made the war inevitable. Recommended.
Bought my copy after a very well done tour of the Mary Todd Lincoln house in Lexington on the recommendation by one of the guides. An interesting story, an interesting and insightful book.
An excellent, brief biography of the worst president in US history, and nearly a traitor at that.
Listes
The Presidents (1)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 15
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 979
- Popularité
- #26,316
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 20
- ISBN
- 34
- Favoris
- 1
This historian puts him the list of the our worst presidents in US history.… (plus d'informations)