Margaret L. Coit (1919–2003)
Autore di John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Coit, Margaret Louise
- Data di nascita
- 1919-05-30
- Data di morte
- 2003-03-15
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Norwich, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
West Newberry, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (Woman's College)
- Attività lavorative
- historian
author
writer
professor - Organizzazioni
- University of New Hampshire
Fairleigh Dickinson University
University of Colorado
Bunker Hill Community College - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1951)
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- Opere
- 8
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 503
- Popolarità
- #49,235
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 20
And on the day I finish the book, I see how a politician and his son want to remove Calhoun's name from the son's dorm at Yale. Is this really going to accomplish the goal? What is the goal?
I don't agree with Calhoun, and maybe he doesn't deserve the honor. But it seems to me that if we rewrite history, we will revisit it. The take away from this book is how early on Calhoun realized the South's doom. Instead of figuring out a way to stop it at that moment, he perpetuated the doom by speaking for it. That's his great failing. We need to remember this failed legacy.… (altro)