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NEVINS, ALLAN Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration
New York Dodd, Mead & Co, 1936 First Edition Hard Cover Good
With an introduction by John Bassett Moore. Xxii, 932 pages, many plates, cloth, ex-library with usual library markings, newly rebound by the library. From the preface: "This volume constitutes the first real effort to treat the achievements of one of our ablest Secretaries of State, of by far the strongest member of the Grant Administration - the leader who, as these pages show, saved that Administration from total disgrace." From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: "Hamilton Fish, 1808-93, American statesman, b. New York City, grad. Columbia, 1827; son of Nicholas Fish (1758-1833). He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1830. Named for his father's friend Alexander Hamilton, and heir to the Federalist tradition, Fish naturally gravitated to politics as a Whig. He served as U.S. Representative (1843-45) and was elected lieutenant governor of New York in 1847 and governor, for a two-year term, in 1848. From 1851 to 1857, Fish was a U.S. Senator, serving on the foreign relations committee in 1855-57. A moderate antislavery man, he opposed both abolitionist and proslavery excesses and deplored the breakup of the Whigs as a national party. Slow to join the new Republican party, he lost his national political standing but became prominent in civic activities in New York. Fish was one of many to lionize the victorious Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant, but his appointment (Mar., 1869) as Grant's Secretary of State, to succeed the grossly miscast Elihu B. Washburne, came as a surprise. He accepted reluctantly and expected to hold the office for only a few months, but actually remained in the cabinet longer than any other member, serving through both of Grant's administrations. Fish was one of the ablest of U.S. Secretaries of State. Grant was much impressed with Fish's character and ability, and he called upon Fish's aid in the administration of domestic affairs as well. Fish's greatest achievement as Secretary was bringing about the treaty (see Washington, Treaty of) that paved the way for settlement of the Alabama claims and other long-standing disputes with Great Britain. This was accomplished amid great difficulties, especially those offered by the vigorously anti-British chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, Charles Sumner."
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NEVINS, ALLAN Henry White: Thirty years of American diplomacy.
New York, Harper & Brothers, 1930.
xii,[2],518p., 16 pls., cloth, back-strip faded. Presentation copy from Mrs. White. Henry White (1850-1927), American diplomat, was U.S. ambassador to Italy and to France.
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NEVINS, ALLAN. Ordeal of the Union.
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, [1947].
2 vols. (xiv,593 & viii,590p.), 10 pls., many text illus., maps & facsims., cloth, dj. Vol. I, Fruits of manifest destiny, 1847-1852; Vol. II, A house dividing, 1852-1857.
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