| Description |
264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
American beginnings, 1500-1900 |
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American beginnings, 1500-1900.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-245) and index. |
| Contents |
Founding a Man, 1779-1810 -- International and Domestic Politics, 1811-1819 -- Domestic and International Politics, 1820-1825 -- Interest in Mexico, 1825-1830 -- Southern "Honor," 1830-1836 -- War, 1837-1841 -- Final Battles, 1841-1851. |
| Summary |
"Joel Roberts Poinsett is one of those figures who show up all across the expanding United States in the early nineteenth century. His career culminated as Secretary of War but also encompassed time as a secret agent in South America, ambassador to Mexico, South Carolina state legislator, and US Congressman-as well as as a naturalist and namesake of the poinsettia, which he stole from Mexico. While Poinsett was not an ideologue with a master plan, his consistently self-interested actions reveal an America defined by selfishness, cruelty, greed-and the use of federal power in support of them"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851.
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Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography.
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Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.
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Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 (OCoLC)fst00115246
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Cabinet officers (OCoLC)fst00843535
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Statesmen (OCoLC)fst01131990
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United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| Added Title |
Joel Roberts Poinsett and the paradoxes of American patriotism |
| Other Form: |
Online version: Schakenbach Regele, Lindsay. Flowers, Guns, and Money. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2023 0226829618 (OCoLC)1397572381 |
| ISBN |
9780226829609 hardcover |
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022682960X hardcover |
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9780226829623 paperback |
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0226829626 paperback |
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9780226829616 electronic book |
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