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The worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens : place, personality, and politics in the Civil War era edited by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller, and John W. Quist
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 415.8 .W67 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Conflicting worlds
- Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868--Political and social views.
- Buchanan, James.
- Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868--Political and social views.
- Stevens, Thaddeus.
- Buchanan, James, 1791-1868.
- Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868.
- American Civil War (1861-1865).
- United States--History--1815-1861.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States--Politics and government--19th century.
- Legislators--United States--19th century--Biography.
- Legislators.
- Politicians--United States--19th century--Biography.
- Politicians.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 279 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery debate divided his peers and the political system. Thaddeus Stevens, meanwhile, as Whig turned Republican, invested in the federal government to encourage economic development and social reform, especially antislavery and Republican Reconstruction"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Possessing the power : the role of force in James Buchanan's Caribbean policy / Amy S. Greenberg
- The bachelor's mess : James Buchanan and the domestic politics of doughfacery in Jacksonian America / Thomas J. Balcerski
- Stephen A. Douglas, free-soiler : a counterfactual analysis of party reformation in the 1850s / Douglas R. Egerton
- "General Jackson is dead" : dissecting a popular anecdote of nineteenth-century party leadership / Matthew Pinsker
- "Buck all over" : James Buchanan and a trail of broken relationships / William P. MacKinnon
- Slavery and the breakup of the Democratic Party in the North : a battle of ideas and organization / Frank Towers
- Friends and outliers : Varina Davis, James Buchanan, and gender relations in Antebellum Washington / Joan E. Cashin
- "Like the baseless fabric of a vision" : Thaddeus Stevens and confiscation reconsidered / John David Smith
- "Eastern and Western empire" : Thaddeus Stevens and the greater Reconstruction / Michael Green
- A conversation with Bruce Levine and James Oakes : moderated by Randall M. Miller.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- The James Buchanan Presidential Library.
- ISBN:
- 9780807170816
- 080717081X
- OCLC:
- 1056449076
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