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Paperback Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism Book
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ISBN: 0226829626

ISBN13: 9780226829623

Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism

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A fascinating historical account of a largely forgotten statesman, who pioneered a form of patriotism that left an indelible mark on the early United States.

Joel Roberts Poinsett's (1779-1851) brand of self-interested patriotism illuminates the paradoxes of the antebellum United States. He was a South Carolina investor and enslaver, a confidant of Andrew Jackson, and a secret agent in South America who fought surreptitiously...

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