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William J. Cooper Jr.

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October 22, 1940

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WILLIAM J. COOPER, JR., is Boyd Professor of History at Louisiana State University and a past president of the Southern Historical Association. He was born in Kingstree, South Carolina, and received his AB from Princeton and his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University. He has been a member of the LSU faculty since 1980 and is the author of The Conservative Regime: South Carolina, 1877-1890; The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1816-1856; Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860; Jefferson Davis, American; and coauthor of The American South: A History. He lives in Baton Rouge.

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	Jefferson Davis, American 4.15 avg rating — 394 ratings — published 2000 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics 4.05 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 2017 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Have the War Upon Us: The Onset of the Civil War, November 1860-April 1861 3.72 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American South: A History (Volume 1) 3.67 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberty and Slavery : Southern Politics to 1860 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The South and the Politics of Slavery, 1828–1856 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American South: A History (Volume 1, From Settlement to Reconstruction) by William J. Cooper Jr., Thomas E. Terrill, Christopher Childers 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals by William J. Cooper Jr. (editor), John M. McCardell Jr. (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The American South: A History (Volume 2) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Absolutely crucial, however, for Adams from his perspective was that he had been called to each of these positions. He repeated time and time again that he had never angled or campaigned or had anyone else intervene on his behalf for any of them. He did not strive; he was chosen. For his own sense of himself, he had to believe that only his merit and virtue brought him office. He did acknowledge his ambition, but he could never consciously permit that aspiration to result in an overt effort to fulfill it.”
― William J. Cooper Jr., The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

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“Two Confederate senators proposed a night attack on McClellan employing exotic tactics—“5000 [men] stripped naked to storm the camps of the enemy with the bayonet only & Kill everybody with clothes on.”
― William J. Cooper Jr., Jefferson Davis, American

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