John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union

By John Niven

Subjects: Biography, Politics and government, Calhoun, john c. (john caldwell), 1782-1850, United States. Congress. Senate, Legislators, United States

Description: In the first full-scale biography of Calhoun in almost fifty years, John Niven presents a new interpretation of this preeminent spokesman of the Old South. Skillfully blending Calhoun's public career with important elements of his private life, Niven shows Calhoun to have been at once a more consistent politician and a more complex human being than previous historians have portrayed. This masterly retelling of John C. Calhoun's eventful life is a model biography.