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...John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum South Carolinian who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the outspoken champion of states' rights and the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...
...travelling squad: Nick Arundel, Walter Beveragg, Sandy Calhoun, Morgan Davis, Tom White (player-manager...
Whoop for War. Young Calhoun was something of a prig. When" his admiring brothers persuaded him to give up farming and sent him to college at 20, he worked as hard at Yale as if he were plowing a rocky patch of land. To the frequent ridicule of his fellow students, he would reply that he studied hard "in order that he might acquit himself creditably when he should become a member of Congress...
...Calhoun's undergraduate cockiness was not unwarranted; seven years after leaving Yale he was in Congress. In 1811 he became Henry Clay's lieutenant in the raucous young "War Hawk" faction which whooped for war against Britain. Afterward, when little "Jemmy" Monroe became President, he offered Calhoun the job of Secretary of War. The ambitious Calhoun grabbed it and did a bangup job. He reformed the Army diet, adding vegetables to the monotonous bread and salt pork, and began projects to extend the Union through exploratory expeditions and the building of a system of national highways...
...could be irascible and harddriving. When U.S. Army Lieut. Sam Houston shepherded a delegation of Indians to his office-with himself togged out in loincloth and blanket-Calhoun gave him a tongue-lashing for looking "like a savage." Men felt in Calhoun a quality of excitement, of suppressed fire, of the dominating intellectual vitality that had been felt in Alexander Hamilton...