LEADER 04280nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910961430903321 005 20251117065118.0 010 $a1-283-02474-8 010 $a9786613024749 010 $a1-61277-447-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079030 035 $a(EBL)3118708 035 $a(OCoLC)922968321 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483125 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12159593 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483125 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10529613 035 $a(PQKB)11659188 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3118708 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3118708 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456330 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL302474 035 $a(BIP)46254578 035 $a(BIP)12297601 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079030 100 $a20050606d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBroken glass $eCaleb Cushing & the shattering of the Union /$fJohn M. Belohlavek 210 $aKent, Ohio $cKent State University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (497 p.) 225 1 $aCivil War in the North 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-87338-841-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe view from High Street, 1800-1826 -- Foreign adventures and congressional ventures, 1827-1834 -- Whig star rising : the politics of antislavery, 1835-1837 -- Battling the British Lion and the American Fox, 1837-1840 -- Tyler and the Corporal's Guard, 1841-1843 -- The road to China, 1843-1844 -- The warrior of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1848 -- The doughface Democrat, 1848-1853 -- The powerbroker : attorney general, 1853-1857 -- The most unpopular man in New England, 1857-1861 -- From Massachusetts exile to Washington insider, 1861-1869 -- The diplomat reemerges, 1869-1879. 330 $aThe most hated man in New England, as critics dubbed him on the eve of the Civil War, Caleb Cushing, brash and controversial, was perhaps the last of 19th-century America's renaissance figures. Poet and politician, essayist and diplomat, general and lawyer, this multidimensional scion of a Newburyport, Massachusetts, mercantile family moved in and out of positions of power and influence for more than fifty years. First as a spokesman for the Whig and then the Democratic Parties, Cushing served in Congress, as the minister to China, as a general in the Mexican War, as U.S. attorney general, and as a legal adviser and diplomatic operative for Presidents Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant. With an unharnessed mind and probing intellect, Cushing inspired and infuriated contemporaries with his strident views on such topics as race relations and gender roles, national expansion and the legitimacy of secession. While his positions generated arguments and garnered enemies, his views often mirrored those of many Americans. His abilities and talents sustained him in public service and made him one of the most outstanding and fascinating figures of the era. Biographer John Belohlavek delivers a work of importance and originality to specialists in the areas of mid-nineteenth-century political, legal, and diplomatic history as well as to those interested in New England history, antebellum gender relations, civil-military relations, and Mexican War studies. 410 0$aCivil War in the North. 606 $aLegislators$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aPoliticians$zMassachusetts$vBiography 606 $aMexican War, 1846-1848$vBiography 606 $aDiplomats$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aDiplomats$zChina$vBiography 606 $aAttorneys general$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aMassachusetts$xPolitics and government$y1775-1865 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1815-1861 615 0$aLegislators 615 0$aPoliticians 615 0$aMexican War, 1846-1848 615 0$aDiplomats 615 0$aDiplomats 615 0$aAttorneys general 676 $a973.5/092 676 $aB 700 $aBelohlavek$b John M$01870331 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961430903321 996 $aBroken glass$94478742 997 $aUNINA