Lincoln and the Democrats: The Politics of Opposition in the Civil War

ISBN-13: 9781107036260 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 224 str.

Jr (Pennsylvania State University) Mark E. Neely

Opis

This book explains the behavior of a two-party system during war - emphasizing the Democrats' role in the Civil War.

Recenzje

'Tantalizingly poses new questions, presents an array of fresh research, and feistily questions assumed facts and fellow historians. Probing, daring, and ever-crusty, he has confirmed his reputation as a Lincoln luminary by producing another book that, for all its brevity and quirkiness, cannot be ignored.' Harold Holzer, The Wall Street Journal

Spis treści

1. Beyond politics: how the North won the Civil War; 2. The elections of 1862, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the invention of the Democratic Party myth; 3. The problem of a loyal opposition; 4. The elusive constitutionalism of the Democratic Party; 5. Lincoln, the Constitution, and the birth of human rights.