The Fire-Eaters

ISBN-13: 9780807117750 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 352 str.

Eric H. Walther

Opis

The Fire-Eaters makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the secession movement and the context in which it developed. Walther shows that secessionism was not a monolithic ideology but rather a movement that emerged from many sources, spoke in many voices, and responded to a number of regional problems, needs, and aspirations.

Walther examines the lives of nine of the most prominent "fire-eaters" (southerns who were staunch and unyielding advocates of the secession): Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, William Lowndes Yancey, John Anthony Quitman, Robert Barnewll Rhett, Laurence M. Keitt, Louis T. Wigfall, James D. B. DeBow, Edmund Ruffin, and William Porcher Miles.