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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Woods, Michael E.
Titre(s) : Arguing until doomsday [Texte imprimé] : Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the struggle for American democracy / Michael E. Woods
Publication : Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, copyright [2020]
Description matérielle : 338 pages : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Civil War America
Lien à la collection : Civil War America
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references p. 295-327 and index
"As the sectional crisis gripped the United States, the rancor increasingly spread
to the halls of Congress. Preston Brooks's frenzied assault on Charles Sumner was
perhaps the most notorious evidence of the dangerous divide between proslavery Democrats
and the new antislavery Republican Party. But as disunion loomed, rifts within the
majority Democratic Party were every bit as consequential. And nowhere was the fracture
more apparent than in the raging debates between Illinois's Stephen Douglas and Mississippi's
Jefferson Davis. As leaders of the Democrats' northern and southern factions before
the Civil War, their passionate conflict of words and ideas has been overshadowed
by their opposition to Abraham Lincoln. But here, weaving together biography and political
history, Michael E. Woods restores Davis['s] and Douglas's fatefully entwined lives
and careers to the center of the Civil War era"
Sujet(s) : Douglas, Stephen A. (1813-1861)
Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889)
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis -- 1783-1865
Esclavage -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Democratic party (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781469656397. - ISBN 1469656396. - ISBN 9781469656403 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46900916q
Notice n° :
FRBNF46900916
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; Western men ; Jackson men ; Manifest destinies ; Down to the crossroads
; Wages of whiteness ; Rule or ruin ; Epilogue, countries over party ; Acknowledgments
; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.
