9789633891889 - The Life of Governor Louis Kossuth with His Public Speeches in the United States, and a Brief History of the Hungarian War of Independence von Osiris-kiado (4 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket In protective mylar cover. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Octavo, 199 pages + [13] pages of plates. In Very Good condition. Spine is red without print. In clear plastic sleeve. Boards are red with small pastedown portrait on front. Illustrated with b&w frontispiece and plates. Published under the auspices of the Embassy of Hungary in Washington, D.C. in honor of the 150th anniversary of Governor-President Louis Kossuth's visit to the United States"- copyright page. 1371023. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Variant reprint of 1852 item. 199, [1] pages plus unpaginated section of Illustrations. DJ is made of clear plastic. Illustration on front cover. This was published under the auspices of the Embassy of Hungary in Washington, D. C. in honor of the 150th anniversary of Governor-President Louis Kossuth's visit to the United States. Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva (English: Louis Kossuth) 19 September 1802 - 20 March 1894) was a Hungarian lawyer, journalist, politician, statesman and Governor-President of the Kingdom of Hungary during the revolution of 1848-49. With the help of his talent in oratory in political debates and public speeches, Kossuth emerged from a poor gentry family into regent-president of Kingdom of Hungary. As the most influential contemporary American journalist Horace Greeley said of Kossuth: "Among the orators, patriots, statesmen, exiles, he has, living or dead, no superior." Kossuth's powerful English and American speeches so impressed and touched the most famous contemporary American orator Daniel Webster, that he wrote a book about Kossuth's life. He was widely honored during his lifetime, including in Great Britain and the United States, as a freedom fighter and bellwether of democracy in Europe. Kossuth's bronze bust can be found in the United States Capitol with the inscription: "Father of Hungarian Democracy, Hungarian Statesman, Freedom Fighter, 1848-1849". In exile, from Britain Kossuth went to the United States of America. In early 1852, Kossuth, accompanied by his wife, Ferenc and Theresa Pulszky, toured the American Midwest, South, and New England. Kossuth was the second foreigner after the Marquis de Lafayette to address the Joint Meeting of the United States Congress. On December 6, 1851, this revolutionary hero arrived in New York to a reception that only Washington and Lafayette had received before. The report of The Sun about he arrival of Kossuth in New York: "Thus immediately previous to the Christmas of 1851 New York city underwent a period of Kossuth mania, and it affected the holiday presents. Every New Year's gift associated itself in some designation with Kossuth and Hungary. Restaurants abounded with Hungarian goulash, a savory dish of boiled beef and vegetables, strongly infused with red peppers; and there were Kossuth cravats (formidable bands of satin or silk wound around the neck, with ends liberally folded over the shirt front), Kossuth pipes, Kossuth umbrellas, Kossuth belts and buckles, Kossuth purses, Kossuth jackets, and Kossuth braid and tassels for wearing apparel.The American Museum on Broadway "was literally covered with paintings and flags. One, a portrait of Kossuth, in the folds of Hungarian and American flags, with the words at the bottom: 'Kossuth, the Washington of Hungary.'" President Millard Fillmore entertained Kossuth at the White House on December 31, 1851 and January 3, 1852. The US Congress organized a banquet for Kossuth, which was supported by all political parties. There is no evidence that Kossuth ever met Abraham Lincoln, although Lincoln did organize a celebration in Kossuth's honor in Springfield, IL., calling him a "most worthy and distinguished representative of the cause of civil and religious liberty on the continent of Europe". Kossuth believed that by appealing directly to European immigrants in the American heartland that he could rally them behind the cause of a free and democratic Hungary. United States officials feared that Kossuth's efforts to elicit support for a failed revolution were fraught with mischief. He would not denounce slavery or stand up for the Catholic Church, and when Kossuth declared George Washington had never intended for the policy of noninterference to serve as constitutional dogma, he caused further defection. Kossuth ruined all chances for backing when he openly recommended to German Americans they should chose Franklin Pierce for President. The gaffe brought him back to London in July 1852. Early the next year, he sent Ferenc Pulszky to m.