Flowers, Guns, And Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett And The Paradoxes Of American Patriotism (American Beginnings, 1500-1900)

Joel Roberts Poinsett is one of those figures who show up all across the expanding United States in the early nineteenth century. His career culminated as Secretary of War but also encompassed time as a secret agent in South America, ambassador to Mexico, South Carolina state legislator, and US Congressman-as well as as a naturalist and namesake of the poinsettia, which he stole from Mexico. While Poinsett was not an ideologue with a master plan, his consistently self-interested actions reveal an America defined by selfishness, cruelty, greed-and the use of federal power in support of them--

• | Author: Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
• | Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 27, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 022682960X
• | ISBN-13: 9780226829609