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Author:

Barnhart, Terry A., 1952-

Title:

Albert Taylor Bledsoe : defender of the old south and architect of the lost cause / Terry A. Barnhart.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xi, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Bledsoe, Albert Taylor,--1809-1877.
Intellectuals--Southern States--Biography.
Slavery--Southern States--Justification.
Southern States--Intellectual life--19th century.
Secession--Southern States.
United States--Causes.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Education and vocation : the origins of a southern intellectual -- Public order and private liberty : the political creed of an Illinois Whig -- Southern education and politics : the making of a sectionalist -- A philosophy of the will : metaphysical and theological speculations -- Southern slavery justified : a watchman's response to abolitionism -- A southern discourse : replies to liberty and slavery -- Broken faiths and covenants : sectionalism, secession, and war -- Writing the revolution : a Confederate interpretation of the Civil War -- The judgment of history : the right of secession and the lost cause -- Rising up from the ashes : the mission of the Southern Review.

Series:

Southern biography series

ISBN:

0807137243 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807137246 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)663822366

LCCN:

2010038031

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)