Lincoln and the Democrats

Name: Lincoln and the Democrats
Author: Mark E. Neely, Jr

The Politics of Opposition in the Civil War

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Paperback, 218 blz. | Engels

Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2017

ISBN13: 9781107637634

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Lincoln and the Democrats describes the vexatious behavior of a two-party system in war and points to the sound parts of the American system which proved to be the country's salvation: local civic pride, and quiet nonpartisanship in mobilization and funding for the war, for example. While revealing that the role of a noxious 'white supremacy' in American politics of the period has been exaggerated - as has the power of the Copperheads - Neely revives the claim that the Civil War put the country on the road to 'human rights', and also uncovers a previously unnoticed tendency toward deceptive and impractical grandstanding on the Constitution during war in the United States.

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ISBN13:9781107637634

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Aantal pagina's:218

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

Serie:Cambridge Essential

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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.

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