I Speak for Thaddeus Stevens (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elsie Singmaster
- First Published: 1947
- Type of Work: Biography
- Type of Plot: Historical chronicle
- Time of Work: 1792-1868
- Setting: Vermont, Pennsylvania, Washington, D. C.
- Principal Characters: Thaddeus Stevens, Sally Morrill Stevens, Joshua, Morrill, Alanson, Lydia Smith, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Members Of Congress, Cabinet, Armed Forces
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, New England, Pennsylvania, Civil War, Politicians, Lawyers
- Locales: Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Vermont
Critique:
I SPEAK FOR THADDEUS STEVENS is a biography in the form of a novel, a work making understandable as a man the complex and often contradictory character of the famous partisan statesman of the Civil War period. The author tells the story of his life as a series of dramatic episodes, each under its proper date and each presenting some crisis, either a triumph or a defeat, in his private affairs or public career. Much of the material in the book is based upon Stevens letters and papers previously unused by historians; the result is a carefully detailed portrait of...
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