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The University of North Carolina Press, Published 1934. Hardcover, 279 pp.; 24 cm; illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Legaré.
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In very good condition, no dust jacket. Blue-green cloth boards with silver lettering on spine; mild shelf wear with light rubbing and bumping to edges and spine. Binding tight. Pages show mild toning but are otherwise clean and unmarked.Linda Rhea's biographical study of Hugh Swinton Legaré (1797-1843), the Charleston-born lawyer, statesman, and man of letters who served in the South Carolina legislature, as U.S. chargé d'affaires to Belgium, in the U.S. House of Representatives, and as U.S. Attorney General under President John Tyler. An examination of his intellectual life and place in antebellum Charleston.