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

Mark E. Neely Jr.

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Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War explores the surprising crucial political history of the Northern war effort. It 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, for example, and quiet nonpartisanship in mobilization and funding for the war. While revealing that the role of a noxious 'white supremacy' in the 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 reveals a previously unnoticed tendency toward deceptive and impractical grandstanding on the Constitution during war in the United States.

Pages: 248

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 31, 2017

ISBN: 1107036267

ISBN 13: 9781107036260

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

Mark E. Neely Jr.

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War explores the surprising crucial political history of the Northern war effort. It 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, for example, and quiet nonpartisanship in mobilization and funding for the war. While revealing that the role of a noxious 'white supremacy' in the 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 reveals a previously unnoticed tendency toward deceptive and impractical grandstanding on the Constitution during war in the United States.

Pages: 248

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: January 31, 2017

ISBN: 1107036267

ISBN 13: 9781107036260

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