University of Tennessee Press 1998 1st Ed. Hardcover Very Good in Very Good jacket Size: 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"; VERY GOOD/DJ VERY GOOD Former library book. Text clean and unmarked except for usual library tretments. Green cloth boards with silver lettering on spine in very good condition. Dust jacket in archival cover in very good condition. Binding firm.

ISBN10: 087049998X, ISBN13: 9780870499982, [publisher: University of Tennessee Press] Hardcover First Edition VERY GOOD/DJ VERY GOOD Former library book. Text clean and unmarked except for usual library tretments. Green cloth boards with silver lettering on spine in very good condition. Dust jacket in archival cover in very good condition. Binding firm.
[Rochester, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]

ISBN10: 087049998X, ISBN13: 9780870499982, [publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr, Knoxville] Hardcover First Edition Octavo. 288 pages, indexed. Hardcover in green dust jacket. DJ has light wear. Text is clean.
[Greensboro, NC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]
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University of Tennessee Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Date: 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 087049998X . A clean tight copy copy bound in green cloth over boards and silver spinal titles. Shows only a trace of shelf and edge wear - a terrific copy! . 1998. University of Tennessee Press ISBN 087049998X 9780870499982 [US]

ISBN10: 087049998X, ISBN13: 9780870499982, [publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr] Hardcover A slaveholding aristocrat and a powerful politician whose ideas and actions helped to shape the antebellum and Civil War periods, James Murray Mason built a career that encompassed virtually all of the critical events and issues of his day. In the first full-scale biography of Mason, Robert W. Young traces the fascinating life of power politics led by this quintessential representative of the Old South. Through his examination of the conservative causes that Mason consistently championed -- strict Constitutional interpretation, states' rights, and slavery -- Young opens a window onto the early-nineteenth-century southern society in which Mason lived. As Young demonstrates, Mason's rise to a position of political strength and his later humiliating fall from power paralleled the fate of the South. Between 1826 and 1861, Mason became an active member of the Virginia legislature, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate. Young shows how thoroughly Mason's southern perspective informed his conduct in office, which included writing the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and leading a Senate investigation into the insurrection at Harpers Ferry. When Virginia seceded, Mason resigned from the Senate and was named diplomatic envoy to England by Jefferson Davis. In recounting Mason's years as a diplomat, Young analyzes ...

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, Date: 1998. First. hardcover. good/very good. 8vo, green cloth, d.w., pages wrinkled throughout from exposure to dampness, but not dampstained. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, (1998).<br/><br/> From the library of Wendell Garrett with his rubber stamp on the front flyleaf.<br/><br/> 1998. University of Tennessee Press ISBN 087049998X US

Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, Date: 1998. First. hardcover. good/very good. 8vo, green cloth, d.w., pages wrinkled throughout from exposure to dampness, but not dampstained. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, (1998).<br/><br/> From the library of Wendell Garrett with his rubber stamp on the front flyleaf.<br/><br/> 1998. University of Tennessee Press ISBN 087049998X 9780870499982 [US]

Univ Tennessee Press 1998 hardcover Good Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

ISBN10: 087049998X, ISBN13: 9780870499982, [publisher: Univ Tennessee Press] Hardcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1998]