Senator Benton And The People

Author : Ken Mueller
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501757555
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senator Benton and the People written by Ken Mueller and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senator Thomas Hart Benton was a towering figure in Missouri politics. Elected in 1821, he was their first senator and served in Washington, DC, for more than thirty years. Like Andrew Jackson, with whom he had a long and complicated relationship, Benton came out of the developing western section of the young American Republic. The foremost Democratic leader in the Senate, he claimed to represent the rights of "the common man" against "monied interests" of the East. "Benton and the people," the Missourian was fond of saying, "are one and the same"—a bit of bombast that reveals a good deal about this seasoned politician who was himself a mass of contradictions. He possessed an enormous ego and a touchy sense of personal honor that led to violent results on several occasions. Yet this conflation of "the people" and their tribune raises questions not addressed in earlier biographies of Benton. Mueller provides a fascinating portrait of Senator Benton. His political character, while viewed as flawed by contemporary standards, is balanced by his unconditional devotion to his particular vision. Mueller evaluates Benton's career in light of his attitudes toward slavery, Indian removal, and the Mexican borderlands, among other topics, and reveals Benton's importance to a new generation of readers. He offers a more authentic portrait of the man than has heretofore been presented by either his detractors or his admirers.

Author : William Nisbet Chambers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Bullion Benton, Senator from the New West written by William Nisbet Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hart Benton written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Hart Benton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
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Download or read book Thirty Years' View written by Thomas Hart Benton and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leo G. Mazow
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271050837
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hart Benton and the American Sound written by Leo G. Mazow and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Argues that musical imagery in the art of American painter Thomas Hart Benton was part of a larger belief in the capacity of sound to register and convey meaning"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Thomas Hart Benton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6D/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Speeches of the Honorable Thomas H. Benton, Senator from the State of Missouri written by Thomas Hart Benton and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Theodore Roosevelt: Thomas Hart Benton written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Elsey Connelley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
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Download or read book History of Kansas State and People written by William Elsey Connelley and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Perley Orman Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book The Retirement of Thomas H. Benton from the Senate and Its Significance written by Perley Orman Ray and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Justin Wolff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374199876
Total Pages : 416 pages
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Download or read book Thomas Hart Benton written by Justin Wolff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Missouri at the end of the nineteenth century, Thomas Hart Benton would become the most notorious and celebrated painter America had ever seen. The first artist to make the cover of Time, he was a true original: an heir to both the rollicking populism of his father's political family and the quiet life of his Appalachian grandfather. In his twenties, he would find his calling in New York, where he was drawn to memories of his small-town youth—and to visions of the American scene. By the mid-1930s, Benton's heroic murals were featured in galleries, statehouses, universities, and museums, and magazines commissioned him to report on the stories of the day. Yet even as the nation learned his name, he was often scorned by critics and political commentators, many of whom found him too nationalistic and his art too regressive. Even Jackson Pollock, his once devoted former student, would turn away from him in dramatic fashion. A boxer in his youth, Benton was quick to fight back, but the widespread backlash had an impact—and foreshadowed many of the artistic debates that would dominate the coming decades. In this definitive biography, Justin Wolff places Benton in the context of his tumultuous historical moment—as well as in the landscapes and cultural circles that inspired him. Thomas Hart Benton—with compelling insights into Benton's art, his philosophy, and his family history—rescues a great American artist from myth and hearsay, and provides an indelibly moving portrait of an influential, controversial, and often misunderstood man.