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Rhett : the turbulent life and times of a fire-eater
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- Creator
- William C. Davis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2001]
- ©2001
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 702 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781570034398, 1570034397
- OCLC
- ocm47849397
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [671]-689) and index.
- Madam Modesty, 1666-1819 -- All passion, excitement and fire, 1819-1828 -- I am a disunionist! 1828-1832 -- Perseverance will ensure success, 1832-1834 -- The Union must be dissolved, 1834-1837 -- Like rotten fruit, you are only fit to fall, 1837-1838 -- A compound of wild democracy, 1838-1840 -- We are something of Lucifers, 1840-1843 -- There is policy in quarrelling, 1843-1844 -- We must slaughter or be slaughtered, 1844 -- I would rather talk treason than not, 1844-1846 -- A rash and ultra man, 1846-1848 -- Into a circle of fire, 1849-1850 -- Such a fire-eater, 1850-1851 -- The South must be free, 1851-1852 -- Profound retirement, 1852-1856 -- I have already passed out of the world, 1857-1859 -- The tea has been thrown overboard, 1859-1860 -- The fist of South Carolina, 1860-1861 -- We will have run round a circle, 1861 -- A pompous, hard, ambitious man, 1861 -- Literally eaten up with envy, 1861 -- There is something wrong somewhere, 1861-1862 -- Cast out of public life, 1862-1864 -- Let us go on striving, 1864-1867 -- To humble my pride, 1867-1876 -- Do you see yonder star? 1876-1939
Subjects
- Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876.
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
- Legislators -- South Carolina -- Biography.
- Secession -- South Carolina.
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
- Statesmen -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.
- Confederate States of America -- Politics and government.