Robert Remini
Born: 1921
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Robert V. Remini, is a professor emeritus of history and research professor emeritus of humanities who taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Biography: On April 28, 2005, Remini was appointed the Historian of the United States House of Representatives.He is professor of history emeritus and research professor of humanities emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He won the National Book Award for the third volume of his study of Andrew Jackson, and he has also written biographies of Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Martin van Buren, Joseph Smith and Daniel Webster.
Awards:
- National Book Award in 1984 for ''Andrew Jackson'' Society of Midland Authors Award for ''Henry Clay''
Robert Remini on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=robert+remini
Selected Titles
Andrew Jackson ISBN: 9780230617551 OCLC: 320497300 Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke : 2009. |
|
Andrew Jackson & his Indian wars ISBN: 0142001287 OCLC: 50541245 Penguin Books, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : 2002, ©2001. The expulsion of Native Americans from the eastern half of the continent to the Indian Territory beyond the Mississippi River is one of the most notorious events in U.S. history and the single most controversial aspect of Andrew Jackson's presidency. Jacksonian scholar Robert Remini provides an analysis of the entire story of Jackson's wars against the Indians, from his first battles with the Cherokees and Creeks to his presidential years, when he helped establish the Indian Territory in Oklahoma and, as a result, the Trail of Tears. --From publisher's description. |
|
Andrew Jackson / ISBN: 0786196610 OCLC: 47743212 Blackstone Audiobooks, Ashland, OR : ℗1994. |
|
At the edge of the precipice : ISBN: 9781441740274 OCLC: 770056271 Blackstone Audio, Inc., [Ashland, Or.] : ℗2010. It has been said that if Henry Clay had been alive in 1860, there would have been no Civil War. Based on his performance in 1850, it may well be true. In that year, the United States faced one of the most dangerous crises in its history, having just acquired a huge parcel of land from the war with Mexico. Northern and Southern politicians fought over whether slavery should be legal on the new American soil. After a Northern congressman introduced a proviso to forbid slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico, Southerners threatened to secede from the Union. Only Henry Clay, America's great compromiser, could keep the Union together, saving it from dissolution for ten crucial years. |
|
At the edge of the precipice : ISBN: 0465012884 OCLC: 213307834 Basic Books, New York : ©2010. "At the Edge of the Precipice" is historian Robert V. Remini's fascinating recounting of the Compromise of 1850, a titanic act of political will that only a skillful statesman like Clay could broker. Although the Compromise would collapse ten years later, plunging the nation into civil war, Clay's victory in 1850 ultimately saved the Union by giving the North an extra decade to industrialize and prepare. |
|
Daniel Webster : ISBN: 9780393318494 OCLC: 919616454 In this monumental new biography, Robert V. Remini gives us a full life of Webster from his birth, early schooling, and rapid rise as a lawyer and politician in New Hampshire to his equally successful career in Massachusetts where he moved in 1816. Remini treats both the man and his time as they tangle in issues such as westward expansion, growth of democracy, market revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the National Bank, and tariff issues. Webster's famous speeches are fully discussed as are his relations with the other two of the great triumvirate, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Throughout, Remini pays close attention to Webster's personal life - perhaps more than Webster would have liked - his relationships with family and friends, and his murky financial dealings with men of wealth and influence. |
|
Daniel Webster : ISBN: 0393045528 OCLC: 37109201 W.W. Norton & Co., New York : ©1997. In this monumental new biography, Robert V. Remini gives us a full life of Webster from his birth, early schooling, and rapid rise as a lawyer and politician in New Hampshire to his equally successful career in Massachusetts where he moved in 1816. Remini treats both the man and his time as they tangle in issues such as westward expansion, growth of democracy, market revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the National Bank, and tariff issues. Webster's famous speeches are fully discussed as are his relations with the other two of the "great triumvirate", Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Throughout, Remini pays close attention to Webster's personal life - perhaps more than Webster would have liked - his relationships with family and friends, and his murky financial dealings with men of wealth and influence. |
|
Henry Clay : ISBN: 0393030040 OCLC: 23140589 W.W. Norton, New York : ©1991. Among nineteenth-century Americans, few commanded the reverence and respect accorded to Henry Clay of Kentucky. As orator and as Speaker of the House for longer than any man in the century, he wielded great power, a compelling presence in Congress who helped preserve the Union in the antebellum period. Remini portrays both the statesman and the private man, a man whose family life was painfully torn and who burned with ambition for the office he could not reach, the presidency.--From publisher description. |
|
The battle of New Orleans ISBN: 9781473520264 OCLC: 888470923 |
|
The era of good feelings and the age of Jackson, 1816-1841 ISBN: 0882955780 OCLC: 4791806 AHM Pub. Corp., Arlington Heights, Ill. : ©1979. |
|
The Jacksonian era ISBN: 088295931X OCLC: 35280798 Harlan Davidson, Wheeling, Ill. : 1997. Offers a look at the social, cultural, and political climate of the era, including discussion of various reform, artistic, and religious movements. |
|
The revolutionary age of Andrew Jackson / ISBN: 0061320749 OCLC: 19070144 |
|
The University of Illinois at Chicago : ISBN: 0738507067 OCLC: 43978902 Arcadia, Charleston, S.C. : ©2000. |