| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Broken Glass: Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union. By John M. Belohlavek. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2005. xiv, 482 pp. $65.00, ISBN 0-87338-841-0.)

"If an individual leaves one party for another," Caleb Cushing observed, "he is a renegade or traitor, patriot or man of honor" (p. 224). It was, he knew, a matter of perspective. In John M. Belohlavek's perceptive, comprehensive, and insightful biography, Cushing's contemporaries came to view him in all those ways. He was by turns a Federalist; Whig; member of John Tyler's "corporal's guard"; conservative Democrat; supporter of John C. Breckinridge in the 1860 election and then of Abraham Lincoln and the Union; postwar diplomat; and failed Supreme Court nominee. Cushing's political "evolution" was perplexing to friends and infuriating to foes. As to his politics, Robert Winthrop mused in 1864, "I doubt if anyone can accurately define that but himself" (p. 331).

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