American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment - Brossura

Magliocca, Gerard N.

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ISBN 10: 1479819913 ISBN 13: 9781479819911

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrote the most important part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees fundamental rights and equality to all Americans. He was also at the center of two of the greatest trials in history, giving the closing argument in the military prosecution of John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. And more than any other man, Bingham played the key role in shaping the Union’s policy towards the occupied ex-Confederate States, with consequences that still haunt our politics.  American Founding Son provides the most complete portrait yet of this remarkable statesman. Drawing on his personal letters and speeches, the book traces Bingham’s life from his humble roots in Pennsylvania through his career as a leader of the Republican Party. Gerard N. Magliocca argues that Bingham and his congressional colleagues transformed the Constitution that the Founding Fathers created, and did so with the same ingenuity that their forbears used to create a more perfect union in the 1780s. In this book, Magliocca restores Bingham to his rightful place as one of our great leaders.  

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Recensione:

"Magliocca presents this evidence in a fine narrative, an excellent example of an intellectual biography. It preserves a chronological presentation, without obscuring the primacy of the subject's legal and political thoughts." ---David Upham,Online Library of Law and Liberty

"How this leading antislavery lawyer shaped Union policy vis-a-vis the defeated South and wrote most of the amendment guaranteeing equal rights to all Americans." --American History

"This volume on Bingham made me rethink some things I thought I was taught in high school history class. Magliocca did a wonderful job of searching, often sparse records, in order to give a full-orbed view of political history in America. I feel like the legacy of a man like Bingham is often forgotten among those who have largely left the politics to highly paid professionals who sit on Washington's hill. It's stories like these, a relatively no-name person from the middle of nowhere rising to power and changing history. We can all learn from Bingham, not only from his big wins, but from his losses as well. We should all be so concerned for freedom as Bingham was, it would make a small difference today which may change the pages of history hundreds of years down the road."-Protestant Voices "Magliocca has done valuable work in bringing to public attention the story of an interesting and important states-man of the mid-19th century. As an enemy of slavery and advocate for constitutional freedom, John Bingham has been too long neglected." --Burrus M. Carnahan,The Federal Lawyer

L'autore:

Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is the author of three books on constitutional law, and his work on Andrew Jackson was the subject of an hour-long program on C-Span's Book TV.

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• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1479819913
• ISBN 13: 9781479819911
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 295