Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King
Autor Thomas J. Balcerskien Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 noi 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190914592
ISBN-10: 0190914599
Pagini: 350
Ilustrații: 39 halftones
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190914599
Pagini: 350
Ilustrații: 39 halftones
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
A concise and confident capstone of [Balcerski's] work on early republican manhood. Readers will find his style accessible and engaging....While Balcerski's conscious focus is on masculinity and male friendships, his narrative also sheds valuable light on the nature of male-female friendships and alliances, as well as the often-invisible work that women have done in the lives of prominent men.
... Balcerski is to be commended for tracing how surviving family member, notably Buchanan's niece Harriet Lane Johnston and King's niece Catherine Margaret Ellis, endeavored to preserve the men's legacy.
In Bosom Friends...Balcerski argues that the personal and the political are inextricable in Buchanan's biography.
Thomas J. Balcerski's dual biography of James Buchanan of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King of Alabama is deeply researched and refreshingly jargon free.
As an analysis of the entangled relationships that formed between public men—personal friendships rooted in intimacy, political friendships that advanced common interests—Balcerski offers the best study to date....As political and social history, Bosom Friends is an impressive study and should be read by anyone who wants to understand how the person and the political interacted in the early-nineteenth-century United States.
A stellar contribution to the lively field of antebellum and Civil War-era political history.....By situating the deep bond between these two nineteenth-century Democrats within its social, cultural, and political context, Balcerski offers fresh insight into both men and illuminates the significance of male friendship in the turbulent world of antebellum American politics....Thanks to studies such as this one, nineteenth-century US political history is flourishing as scholars excavate the human experience of politics and illuminate how power was won, wielded, and lost amid wrenching partisan and sectional conflicts.
Balcerski impressively balances the personal and the worldly to produce an original and engaging study both of two men and of the wider antebellum world which they lived in and helped shape....This is certainly the definitive account of the intimate friendship between Buchanan and King. In addition, Balcerski makes important original contributions to our understanding of male friendships and politics in the antebellum United States. This is an excellent first book from a promising young scholar.
Engrossing, imaginative, and well written....Balcerski has written an illuminating revisionist study that adds to our understanding of multiple overlapping topics: King and Buchanan, both individually and together; Jacksonian party politics; the sectional crisis; nineteenth-century bachelorhood and masculinity; the nature and role of antebellum political friendships; the interplay between public and private in such friendships; and the historical memory of the two men and their relationship.
There has, over the last decade or so, been a growing interest in the personal behind the political ... This study of two of the nation's most active politicians is a very fine example of the value in this approach ... Balcerski's original study helps us understand better the reasons behind Buchanan's bad reputation. Bringing King and Buchanan together, we see them, and their world, with far greater clarity.
Bosom Friends is not merely a fascinating story told by a gifted young historian, but a potentially pathbreaking study that suggests new ways to understand political alliances in the late antebellum years. Far richer than simply a dual biography of two influential public men, this volume instead situates the much gossiped-about King-Buchanan relationship within larger patterns of intimate male friendships common to the nineteenth century. An illuminating and intelligent work of scholarship.
This original dual biography offers a good deal more than a spirited argument about the nature of the Buchanan-King relationship; it sheds new light on the meaning and importance of male intimacy in antebellum political culture.
Bosom Friends is a revelation. Exhaustively researched, it sheds fresh light on antebellum politics through its discerning analysis of a distinctive, intimate friendship that crossed sectional, if not sexual, boundaries. Prepare to be surprised and enlightened by Balcerski's findings.
Bosom Friends takes us back into a nineteenth-century political world that relied not only on vicious partisanship but also intimate, loving male friendships that provided affection and support as well as serving to advance common political interests. In this absorbing new book, Thomas Balcerski explores the boardinghouses where most early nineteenth-century congressmen lived and asks how Americans understood the close friendships that developed in these settings. Focusing on the friendship between Buchanan and King, Balcerski pays careful attention to the ways in which contemporaries described, praised, and attacked the intimate yet public bond between these two men.
... Balcerski is to be commended for tracing how surviving family member, notably Buchanan's niece Harriet Lane Johnston and King's niece Catherine Margaret Ellis, endeavored to preserve the men's legacy.
In Bosom Friends...Balcerski argues that the personal and the political are inextricable in Buchanan's biography.
Thomas J. Balcerski's dual biography of James Buchanan of Pennsylvania and William Rufus King of Alabama is deeply researched and refreshingly jargon free.
As an analysis of the entangled relationships that formed between public men—personal friendships rooted in intimacy, political friendships that advanced common interests—Balcerski offers the best study to date....As political and social history, Bosom Friends is an impressive study and should be read by anyone who wants to understand how the person and the political interacted in the early-nineteenth-century United States.
A stellar contribution to the lively field of antebellum and Civil War-era political history.....By situating the deep bond between these two nineteenth-century Democrats within its social, cultural, and political context, Balcerski offers fresh insight into both men and illuminates the significance of male friendship in the turbulent world of antebellum American politics....Thanks to studies such as this one, nineteenth-century US political history is flourishing as scholars excavate the human experience of politics and illuminate how power was won, wielded, and lost amid wrenching partisan and sectional conflicts.
Balcerski impressively balances the personal and the worldly to produce an original and engaging study both of two men and of the wider antebellum world which they lived in and helped shape....This is certainly the definitive account of the intimate friendship between Buchanan and King. In addition, Balcerski makes important original contributions to our understanding of male friendships and politics in the antebellum United States. This is an excellent first book from a promising young scholar.
Engrossing, imaginative, and well written....Balcerski has written an illuminating revisionist study that adds to our understanding of multiple overlapping topics: King and Buchanan, both individually and together; Jacksonian party politics; the sectional crisis; nineteenth-century bachelorhood and masculinity; the nature and role of antebellum political friendships; the interplay between public and private in such friendships; and the historical memory of the two men and their relationship.
There has, over the last decade or so, been a growing interest in the personal behind the political ... This study of two of the nation's most active politicians is a very fine example of the value in this approach ... Balcerski's original study helps us understand better the reasons behind Buchanan's bad reputation. Bringing King and Buchanan together, we see them, and their world, with far greater clarity.
Bosom Friends is not merely a fascinating story told by a gifted young historian, but a potentially pathbreaking study that suggests new ways to understand political alliances in the late antebellum years. Far richer than simply a dual biography of two influential public men, this volume instead situates the much gossiped-about King-Buchanan relationship within larger patterns of intimate male friendships common to the nineteenth century. An illuminating and intelligent work of scholarship.
This original dual biography offers a good deal more than a spirited argument about the nature of the Buchanan-King relationship; it sheds new light on the meaning and importance of male intimacy in antebellum political culture.
Bosom Friends is a revelation. Exhaustively researched, it sheds fresh light on antebellum politics through its discerning analysis of a distinctive, intimate friendship that crossed sectional, if not sexual, boundaries. Prepare to be surprised and enlightened by Balcerski's findings.
Bosom Friends takes us back into a nineteenth-century political world that relied not only on vicious partisanship but also intimate, loving male friendships that provided affection and support as well as serving to advance common political interests. In this absorbing new book, Thomas Balcerski explores the boardinghouses where most early nineteenth-century congressmen lived and asks how Americans understood the close friendships that developed in these settings. Focusing on the friendship between Buchanan and King, Balcerski pays careful attention to the ways in which contemporaries described, praised, and attacked the intimate yet public bond between these two men.
Notă biografică
Thomas J. Balcerski is an assistant professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University.