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Carl Schurz
A Biography
by Hans Louis Trefousse
ISBN: 0823218546
ISBN-13: 9780823218547
Format: Hardcover
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.8 pounds
Pages: 386
Publisher's Notes
Born in Germany in 1829, Schurz became involved in the Revolution of 1848 when he was a student at the University of Bonn. Participating in the revolutionary army in Baden, 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 America in 1852, he speedily made use of his ethnic connections to enter politics. As a role model for German Americans, Schurz always preached the necessity of assimilation but the retention of the German heritage. Schurz's legacy is of importance to this day, particularly because he represented the older liberal German tradition with its tolerance and opposition to racial and religious hatreds.
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Carl Schurz: A Biography
Trefousse, Hans Louis
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Fordham Univ Pr. 1998. F First Edition (First Printing). Hardcover. VG+. Hardcover in dust jacket. An ex-library copy with the usual markings and flaps of d.j. glued to endpapers, but showing little if any use (d.j. is bright from having been in a mylar protector that has been removed). ( more information) Offered by Books on High / Tri-Village Book Company (United States)
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