Mistress of Manifest Destiny
Jane McManus Storm Cazneau was a complex person who died at sea the way she lived — at the center of a storm of controversy. Whether as Aaron Burr's mistress, land speculating in Texas, behind enemy lines during the Mexican War, filibustering for Cuba or Nicaragua, promoting Mexican revolution from a dugout in Eagle Pass, or urging free blacks to emigrate to the Dominican Republic, Cazneau seldom took the easy path. As a journalist, an advisor to national political figures, and publicist, she helped shape United States domestic and foreign policy from the mid-1840s into the 1870s. Cazneau's most unique contribution was as a staff member for John L. O'Sullivan, editor of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review, where she described the mission of the United States as "Manifest Destiny," thereby coining one of the most significant and influential phrases in American political history. Cazneau was dedicated to the expansion of republican government and she had a deep and abiding love for her country and faith in its people and its future.
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- title
- Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807-1878
- creator
- Hudson, Linda S.
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- Taylor, Holly Zumwalt
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- Timmons, David
- publisher
- Texas State Historical Association
- date
- 2001
- language
- eng
- description.content
- Book containing a biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, a journalist, publicist, and advocate for military, political, and class reforms. Includes her time in New York, Texas, and Cuba, as well as her coverage of the Mexican War.
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- viii, 306 p. : ill., maps
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- Literature
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- Places - Republic of Texas
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- Military and War - Wars - Mexican War
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- Social Life and Customs - Slavery
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- Business, Economics and Finance - Journalism
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- Government and Law - Politics
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- Revolutionaries
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- Women revolutionaries
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- Journalists
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- Women journalists
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- Mexican War, 1846-1848
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- Political messianism
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- Manifest Destiny
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- Montgomery, Cora, 1807-1878
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- Cazneau, Jane Maria McManus, 1807-1878
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- Biographies
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- Filibusters
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- Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836
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- Texas -- History -- Republic, 1836-1846
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- United States -- Territorial expansion
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- United States Magazine and Democratic Review
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- New York Sun
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- magazines
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- Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836
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- 1807
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- 1878
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- United States - Texas
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- Cuba
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- United States - New York
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- text_book
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- TSHA_0129
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- 00048917
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- 0-87611-179-7
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- F390.M76 H83 2001
- identifier.OCLC
- 45172674
- identifier.UNTCAT
- b2261569
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