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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 champion of states' rights and the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret Coit. A spirited biography of the great ante bellum Sauth Carolinian who, as Congressman, Secretary of War and Vice President, was the champion of states' rights and the South's slave-owning aristocracy (TIME, March...
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...
Many historians have been tempted to explore these puzzles in Calhoun's character, but none has gathered more personal facts about him or analyzed them with more spirit than Connecticut-born, North Carolina-educated Margaret Coit. In her determination to breathe life into the "steel engraving of a mummy so familiar in our schoolbooks," Biographer Coit occasionally falls into huffing & puffing prose; but she does manage to bring the steel engraving to life in a first-class biography...
...Three Cs. Like two other famed headmasters of New England prep schools, Peabody of Groton and Coit of St. Paul's, Diman thought the English public schools were on the right tack in stressing classics, character and Christianity. (Dr. Coit, however, was too English for him: "He was such an Anglophile that he wouldn't let the students play baseball; they had to play cricket."*) He was impatient of office routine, and so worded his letters that few required answers. The hours thus saved he spent in meditation...