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John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities?
John C. Calhoun on Capitol Hill, 2015Credit.Zach Gibson/The New York Times
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By Andrew Delbanco
By Robert Elder
Coming so soon after a neoconfederate mob rampaged through the Capitol, a respectful biography of the ideological father of the Confederacy may feel as welcome as an exhumed corpse. But the young historian Robert Elder has given us just that in “Calhoun” an illuminating account of the life of the notorious white supremacist as well as his complex afterlife in American political culture.
John C. Calhoun was a zealous defender of slavery. His name has lately been stripped from a residential college at Yale (his alma mater) and from a lake in Minnesota named in his honor when he was secretary of war. His monument in Charleston a glowering bronze figure in a cloak spread like eagle wings atop an obelisk has been removed to an undisclosed location, as if in a witness protection program. ....

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