ISBN10: 0945636253, ISBN13: 9780945636250, [publisher: Susquehanna University Press] Hardcover Fine condition hard cover book with Fine condition dust jacket. Some slight bumping to bottom edge of spine. Some smudging to edges of text block. Dust Jacket has some shelf wear and toning edges. No rips or tears. Dust jacket protected by removable clear mylar cover. All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never X-library unless specifically described as such.
[Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]

ISBN10: 0945636253, ISBN13: 9780945636250, [publisher: Brand: Susquehanna Univ Pr] Hardcover First Edition Edward Everett's career coincided with the beginning of industrialism, the coming of railroads, and a revolution in water transportation. It also coincided with the beginnings of large-scale immigration, the rapid development of urban centers, and the rise of the anti-slavery movement. These silent forces transformed society and brought about one of the most turbulent political eras in the nation's history. Divisive sectional interests, the rise of the new two-party system, and territorial expansion changed the political arena. Everett entered politics as this new era began. He was already a public man. He shone brightly as editor of the nation's first literary magazine, the North American Review, thrilled throngs with his oratory, and was accepted in the community as an intellectual. He rejected the narrow sectionalism of the New England Federalists and wholeheartedly accepted the political teachings of Edmund Burke.His strengths on entering office were impressive. He was well informed as to the political developments in Europe, had a command of several foreign languages, rejected orthodox theology, and achieved a broad outlook--and he had a marvelously free-flowing pen. He won the hearts of young people of Boston with his Phi Beta Kappa address, which portrayed a bright and rich cultural future for the nation.Certain points of view w ...

ISBN10: 0945636253, ISBN13: 9780945636250, [publisher: Susquehanna Univ Press, London] Hardcover First Edition Page 129-130 is wrinkled at the fore edge o/w this copy is in NF condition with DJ in NF condition. Clean, unmarked. KRM/polisci
[Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1992]