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Creator Margaret Coit's Pulitzer Award being successful biography of John C. Calhoun is a towering accomplishment in the writing of American history, powerful in the fullest sense of the word. This is no bland recital of dates and events. It really is a searing, blinding, cascading roller coaster of psychological, spiritual, intellectual, and most importantly, human, history. The listener lives through hot, sleepy days on the South Carolina frontier of Calhoun's children; complements him to Yale in 1802 where the scent of the sea wafted in through his rooms; to the stern, New Britain town of Litchfield, Connecticut and its law school to study under Federalist mentors, and where students were likely to wear buckled breeches and ruffled stocks and shares. Muddy, primitive Washington, D.C. involves life in the horrible years when our countrywide tragedy of disunion was unfolding, with Jackson, Benton, Randolph, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun each attempting in his own way to avert catastrophe. When you yourself have known the great South Carolinian at all the phases of his life; when you have resided through the incidents which established his views; so when you have adopted the path of his relentless logic - then you will finally understand our Civil Battle as handful of us have ever been able to comprehend it before. In Pass up Coit's brilliant story of Calhoun's personal life we discover a man of individual frailties and individual magnificence, much not the same as the image in those brooding photos. And for the very first time we know how John C. Calhoun placed the passionate devotion of his people.
