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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Prior, David
• David Prior

Titel

The Arms Scandal of 1870–1872: Immigrant Liberal Republicans and America’s Place in the World

Ist Teil von

• Reconstruction in a Globalizing World, 2018, p.94-120

Ort / Verlag

United States: Fordham University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• On February 20, 1872, future president James A. Garfield wrote in his diary that Senator Carl Schurz had just made “the most brilliant senatorial speech of his life.”¹ That was no small compliment, given Schurz’s renown as an orator. He had begun public speaking in 1848, rousing restive Germans as a student revolutionary. When the uprisings failed the following year, he moved to the United States, where he quickly learned English and went on to much greater acclaim. Abraham Lincoln praised his work on the stump in 1860, rewarding him first with a position as United States minister to Spain