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Trial of Samuel Chase: An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Impeached by the House of Representatives for High Crimes and Misdemeanors Before the

Aar Burr

…The highlight of Burr's tenure as President of the Senate (one of his few official duties as Vice President) was the Senate's first impeachment trial, of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. In 1804, the last full year of his single term as Vice President, Burr killed his political rival Alex...

The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Haunted Minds and Ambiguous Approaches (Literary Criticism in Perspective)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the "power of blackness" in his fiction - the complex moral grappling with sin and guilt. By the 1850s, Hawthorne had al...

Mesmerism and Hawthorne: Mediums of American Romance

Coale explores the profound influence that the mesmerist and spiritualist 'craze' of the 1840s and 1850s had on Hawthorne's artistic vision and fictional techniques.Nathaniel Hawthorne despised both mesmerism and spiritualism, viewing these pseudosciences as new incarnations of witchcraft, in which ...

Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction

The recent popularity of The DaVinci Code and The Matrix trilogy exemplifies the fascination Americans have with conspiracy-driven subjects. Though scholars have suggested that in modern times the JFK assassination initiated an industry of conspiracy (i.e., Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, Area 51, ...

Quirks of the Quantum: Postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)

Episodic and disconnected, much of postmodern fiction mirrors the world as quantum theorists describe it, according to Samuel Chase Coale. In Quirks of the Quantum, Coale shows how the doubts, misgivings, and ambiguities reflected in the postmodern American novel have been influenced by the metaphor...

Grand Inquests: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson

The Chief Justice presents a dramatic account of two precedent-setting impeachment cases that strengthened the concept of separation of powers and further defined the institutions of American government.

William Styron Revisited (Twayne's United States Authors)

Hardcover: 150 pagesPublisher: Twayne Publishers; annotated edition edition (April 1991).

Malignity Exposed, or a Vindication of Bishop Chase Against the Malicious Accusations of an Anonymous Pamphlet, Printed in Ann-Street, N. y (Classic Reprint)

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The Answer and Pleas of Samuel Chase: One of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, to the Articles of Impeachment, ... of the United States, Support of Their Impe

Excerpt from The Answer and Pleas of Samuel Chase: One of the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, to the Articles of Impeachment, Exhibited Against Him in the Senate, by the House of Representatives of the United States, Support of Their Impeachment Against Him, for High Cr...