CALHOUN, JOHN C

Additional reading Calhoun's writings are collected in Richard K. Crall (ed.), The Works of John C. Calhoun, 6 vols. (185156, reissued 1968). Biographies include Charles M. Wiltse, John C. Calhoun, 3 vols. (194451, reissued 1968), with an excessive pro-Calhoun bias; Margaret L. Coit, John C. Calhoun: American Portrait (1950, reissued 1977), also laudatory; Gerald Mortimer Capers, John C. Calhoun, Opportunist: A Reappraisal (1960), brief and critical; Richard Nelson Current, John C. Calhoun (1963), emphasizing the significance of Calhoun's thought for the present; and John Niven, John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union (1988), a sympathetic portrayal. Gerald M. Capers