Roderick Heller Iii (44 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy epitomized the American democrat. In Democracy's Lawyer, the first comprehensive biography of Grundy since 1940, J. Roderick Heller reveals how Grundy's life typifies the archetypal, post-founding fathers generation that forged America's culture and institutions. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy epitomized the American democrat. In Democracy's Lawyer, the first comprehensive biography of Grundy since 1940, J. Roderick Heller reveals how Grundy's life typifies the archetypal, post-founding fathers generation that forged America's culture and institutions. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Binding good, pencil notes with typical yellowing. Some wear to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Minimal shelf wear, clean internals. Publisher's remainder mark.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy . Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by author on half title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Fine. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Very Good condition hardcover book, Near Fine condition dust jacket. First Printing. Bright gilt lettering on spine, not worn. Light bumping to bottom corners and spine end. Pages smudged with light toning. Dust jacket unclipped. Jacket has light shelf wear and smudging. No rips or tears. Jacket protected by Mylar. Each book is individually inspected and described. Never X-Library unless specifically described as such. …

Hard cover. Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 357 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Frontispiece. Southern Biography (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. Inscribed to the previous owner and signed by the author. Clean tight unmarked copy.…

hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st. 8vo, 357 pp., Inscribed & signed by the author on the half-title page. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. Illustrated (illustrator).

hardcover. Condition: As New. Very nice book.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. [Association copy, inscribed by J. Roderick Heller III on half title page.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. *Autographed by author.*. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Louisiana State University Press, 2010. Octavo. Hardcover. Signed with inscription on half title page. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Octavo, tan cloth (hardcover), xiv, 157 pp. Near Fine in a like dust jacket. From dust jacket: On July 18, 1863, from his camp near Richmond, Virginia, Confederate private Lawrence Barrett wrote home to his brother-in-law in Pickens County, South Carolina, "The soldiers has a by word," he wrote, "when any body or anything lost saying its gone up the spout. I say the Confederacy is on her way up the spout." His prophetic lines are from one of the thirty-three Civil War letters, all previously unpublished, included in this volume. Written in a plainly eloquent southern vernacular, the letters focus on a single upcountry South Carolina farm family over the course of the war and enhance a perspective of the Confederacy for which documentary evidence is scarce. The letters, published here with their original spelling and punctuation intact, were written by seven soldiers between 1861 and 1864, and sent to Lucretia Barrett McMahan and her husband. Three of the soldiers, Milton, Benjamin, and Lawrence Barrett, were her brothers, and one, William Collett, her brother-in-law. The other three were friends or acquaintances of the family. The editors' introduction and their commentary interspersed throughout the letters provide a general historical context as well as extensive information about the Barrett family and the region and social sphere in which they lived. Twenty of the letters are from Milton Barrett, who as a member of the famous Eighteenth Georgia Regiment saw action in most of the war's major battles. Like a series of Mathew Brady images, the letters are filled with details that summon a startling and immediate sense of recognition and identification: they tell of camp life outside Goldsboro, North Carolina; of a food riot in Richmond, Virginia; of a despondent, tearful Yankee prisoner on Little Edisto Island, South Carolina. They also reveal a consonance of descriptions, opinions, and emotional expressions that substantiate the harsh realities of the Confederate foot soldier's daily life, from diet ("we have bicets [biscuits] that is so hard i could nock a bull down with one") to discipline ("there Was a man shot out here the other day for deserten"). As the conflict dragged on and the soldiers' commitment dwindled to hopes for "a spedady end of this wicket war," a chilling matter-of-factness surfaces in the letters, as when Milton Barrett, from near Lookout Mountain, Tennesseee, writes "the Yankees is advancen i must lay down my pen and go to shooting." None of the three Barrett brothers, nor their brother-in-law, survived the conflict. Like their letters, their deaths illustrate the final reality of this war: two died in hospitals, one of blood poisoning following an amputation, the other presumably of mortal wounds; one died of smallpox in a prison camp; and one disappeared in the confusion of battle. Sincere, spontaneous, and decidedly unphilosophical about their authors' motivations for taking up arms, these letters will now speak to a wider readership through their tragic subtext of loss innocence. Civil War, South Carolina, United States History, U. S. History, American History, Americana, Military History, American Biography, Primary Source, American Letters. yslic. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Clean copy, about Fine. Inscription from the author on the front half-title page to the previous owners of the book. 357 pages. "A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (1775-1840) epitomized the "American democrat" who so famously fascinated Alexis de Tocqueville. Born and reared on the isolated frontier, Grundy rose to become the Old Southwest's greatest criminal lawyer and one of the first radical political reformers in the fledgling United States. This biography reveals how Grundy's life typifies the archetypal, post-founding fathers generation that forged America's culture and institutions.". Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing, stated. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page: "June 17, 2010 / To S-- C-- / with appreciation and best wishes / Roderick Heller." An entry in the publisher's Southern Biography Series. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, tail of spine bumped. The dust jacket is not priced; minor wear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected. Signed by Author(s).…

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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 157pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket--as new. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated. Stated first printing. DJ nicely in archival wraps with minor nicks to the edges; interior clean and fresh. Less common biography. Felix Grundy (1777 - 1840) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th U.S. attorney general. He also had served several terms as a congressman and as a U.S. senator from Tennessee. He was known for his success as a criminal lawyer who attracted crowds when he served on the defense. Grundy was a mentor to future President James K. Polk. Polk purchased Grundy's home in Nashville called "Grundy Place" and changed the name to "Polk Place". He lived and died there after his presidency.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. Tan cloth over boards with red lettering on spine. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1992. Number Line: 5 4 3 2 1. 157 pages. Black and white photograph of Lawrence Barrett on front cover of DJ. Light shelf wear at top and bottom edges of spine of DJ. Boards have been well protected by DJ. Red lettering on spine is neat and legible. Red front and rear endpapers. Bookplate on front attached endpaper, "Presented in Appreciation for your Heritage Leader Membership in the Civil War Trust". Pages are in excellent condition with black and white photographs of Confederate soldiers throughout. Binding strong and secure. Very Good condition. Signed by J. Roderick Heller III on the front free endpaper with a 1 line inscription not addressed to anyone. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition, review copy with slip laid in. Octavo. 157 pp. Tan cloth boards. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Near fine with a slightly cocked spine, two discreet stains on the front board in a near fine dust jacket with edge wear. Letters written home by seven South Carolina soldiers.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. FIRST Edition thus. A FLAWLESS volume in same condition dust jacket. * SIGNED * by editor, J. R. Heller, III, on red front free end-paper. NOT inscribed. As New volume in same condition UNclipped dust jacket (no price as usual for University presses). Illustrated with many archival photographs. A four page Foreword by historian James McPherson. Bibliography and Notes at rear. Includes letters from a soldier in the famous Confederate Eighteenth Georgia Regiment. 157 pages. Mylar protected jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: New.

HELLER, J. Roderick, III, and HELLER, Carolynn Ayres, eds. The Confederacy Is on Her Way up the Spout: Letters to South Carolina, 1861-1864. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, [1992]. 1st ed. xiv,157pp. Illus., portraits. Orig. cloth, non-priceclipped d/j. Fine. Letters by seven soldiers sent to Lucretia Barrett McMahan and her husband.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. New hardcover in a New dust jacket which has been wrapped for protection. Signed by the author on the half title page. No names or marks. ; Southern Biography Series; 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"; 357 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. A central political figure in the first post-Revolutionary generation, Felix Grundy (1775-1840) epitomized the ""American democrat"" who so famously fascinated Alexis de Tocqueville. Born and reared on the isolated frontier, Grundy rose largely by his own ability to become the Old Southwest's greatest criminal lawyer and one of the first radical political reformers in the fledgling United States. In Democracy's Lawyer, the first comprehensive biography of Grundy since 1940, J. Roderick Heller reveals how Grundy's life typifies the archetypal, post-founding fathers generation that forged America's culture and institutions.After his birth in Virginia, Grundy moved west at age five to the region that would become Kentucky, where he lost three brothers in Indian wars. He earned a law degree, joined the legislature, and quickly became Henry Clay's main rival. At age thirty-one, after rising to become chief justice of Kentucky, Grundy moved to Tennessee, where voters soon elected him to Congress. In Washington, Grundy proved so voracious a proponent of the War of 1812 that a popular slogan of the day blamed the war on ""Madison, Grundy, and the Devil."" A pivotal U.S. senator during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, Grundy also served as Martin Van Buren's attorney general and developed a close association with his law student and political protégé James K. Polk. Grundy championed the ideals of the American West, and as Heller demonstrates, his dominating belief - equality in access to power - motivated many of his political battles. Aristocratic federalism threatened the principles of the Revolution, Grundy asserted, and he opposed fetters on freedom of opportunity, whether from government or entrenched economic elites.Although widely known as a politician, Grundy achieved even greater fame as a criminal lawyer. Of the purported 185 murder defendants that he represented, only one was hanged. At a time when criminal trials served as popular entertainment, Grundy's mere appearance in a courtroom drew spectators from miles around, and his legal reputation soon spread nationwide. One nineteenth-century Nashvillian declared that Grundy ""could stand on a street corner and talk the cobblestones into life."" Shifting seamlessly within the worlds of law, entrepreneurship, and politics, Felix Grundy exemplified the questing, mobile society of early nineteenth-century America. With Democracy's Lawyer, Heller firmly establishes Grundy as a powerful player and personality in early American law and politics.…