Peg A. Lamphier
Autor von Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage
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Peg A. Lamphier is an adjunct professor of history at Chaffey College, California State Polytechnic, Pomona, and Mt. San Antonio College in California.
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I have been eager to learn more about Kate since reading about her in Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, so it was with hopeful expectation that I began reading this book.
Peg Lamphier is adjunct professor of history at Chaffey College, California State Polytechnic, Pomono, and Mt. San Santonio College in California.
The text is heavily footnoted, but there is no separate bibliography, which I find to be a deficiency. While Ms. Lamphier did draw heavily on the Salmon P. Chase papers in various locations and the papers of Kate Chase and William Sprague, she also relies heavily on recent scholarly books to interpret events and attitudes of the 19th century.
I frankly am not interested in Ms. Lamphier's suppositions and conjectures. I think the book would have been better served without them.… (mehr)