Word: hendrick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STATESMEN OF THE LOST CAUSE-Burton J. Hendrick-Little, Brown...
STATESMEN OF THE LOST CAUSE-Burton J. Hendrick-Little, Brown...
...South's Confederate heroes were military leaders-Lee, Jeb Stuart, Longstreet, Stonewall Jackson-not Jeff Davis and his Cabinet. The first full-length study of the Confederate Cabinet, Statesmen of the Lost Cause, is by a Yankee. Pulitzer Prize Biographer Hendrick (The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page) makes these forgotten statesmen the biographical find of the year. Individually picturesque, they made still more picturesque diplomatic history. And Author Hendrick gives them a large share of credit for losing the War. If that Yankee judgment seems harsh, what many a Southerner thinks of Jeff Davis and his Cabinet...
Significant to Author Hendrick is the fact that the South's Civil War statesmen represented the "new men" of the cotton belt, not the aristocracy of the Old South. Jeff Davis was born in a log cabin 120 miles from Lincoln's slightly smaller birthplace. Vice President Stephens got his start as a "corn dropper" on his father's small farm. Secretary of the Treasury Memminger, born in Germany, was brought up in a Charleston orphanage. Secretary of the Navy Mallory helped his mother in a Florida boardinghouse. Secretary of State Benjamin...
...looked as if Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was the biggest paradox of all. Vandenberg best symbolized all phases and shades of the opposition to embargo repeal, thus was chosen to open debate for the antis, while Clark (diehard extremist) was to manage the Floor fight; and Borah (traditional romantic) was to have the last word. Thus the "Big Michigander,"* always safe, sound, middle-of-the-road, now stood up to the Pretorian Guard of his party-Big Business. For there was no doubt he was flying in the face of Michigan's corporate empire-General Motors. Henry Ford, however, vigorously...