Carl Schurz : A Biography / Hans Trefousse.
Trefousse, Hans, author.
2022
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Title Carl Schurz : A Biography / Hans Trefousse.
Author Trefousse, Hans, author.
ISBN 9780823295227
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295227
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©1998
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (386 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823295227 doi
Summary The biography of Carl Schurz is a story of an amazing life. At the age of 19, Schurz, a student at the University of Bonn, became involved in the Revolution of 1848. Participating in the revolutionary army, he managed to escape through a sewer during the siege of Rastatt, flee across the Rhine to France, and come back to rescue his professor, Gottfried Kinkel, from a jail near Berlin. This deed made him famous, and when he came to American in 1852, Schurz was nominated for lieutenant governor of Wisconsin on the Republican ticket. He quickly rose in the party and was the head of the Wisconsin delegation at the 1860 National Convention. He worked hard for the cause, and Lincoln rewarded him with the post of Minister to Spain. At the outbreak of war he returned to join the Union Army, became a Major General, and took part in several important battles. After the war, he moved to Missouri, was elected Senator from that State, and became a role model for his fellow German Americans. In 1871 he became one of the main figures in the Liberal Republican movement, and in 1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him Secretary of the Interior. After his retirement from the cabinet, Schurz became active in the politics of New York, as an advocate of municipal and civil service reform. He was a leading Mugwump who supported Grover Cleveland in 1884 and at the end of his life became a violent opponent of imperialism. He died in 1906. Carl Schurz, the man, his story, his ideals and his example, are particularly appropriate today because of the light his life sheds on the never-ending problems of immigration, assimilation, and the retention of ethnic identity. Carl Schurz's career furnishes a model example for all of these.
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Series The North's Civil War
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
I Youth
II Revolution
III Exile
IV America
V Antislavery and the Beginning of Ethnic Politics
VI Victory and Secession
VII Radical Minister to Spain
VIII Radical Brigadier General
IX Radical Major General
X Reconstruction
XI The Triumph of Ethnic Politics
XII The Break with Grant
XIII The Liberal Republican Debacle
XIV Independent Liberal Leader
XV Secretary of the Interior
XVI Mugwump
XVII Independent
XVIII Anti-Imperialist: The Last Years
Epilogue
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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