John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate, and Cabinet. An Autobiography

by John Sherman

Overview

John Sherman - "These Recollections grew out of a long deferred purpose to publish a selection of my speeches on public questions, but in collecting them it became manifest that they should be accompanied or preceded by a statement of the circumstances that attended their delivery. The attempt to furnish such a statement led to a review of the chief events of my public life, which covers the period extending from 1854 to the present time. The sectional trouble that preceded the Civil War, the war itself with all its attendant horrors and sacrifices, the abolition of slavery, the reconstruction measures, and the vast and unexampled progress of the republic in growth and development since the war, presented a topic worthy of a better historian than I am."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013377523
Publisher:	Robin Michell
Publication date:	09/15/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB