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Arguing until doomsday : Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the struggle for American democracy

Title: Arguing until doomsday : Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the struggle for American democracy / Michael E. Woods.
Author: Woods, Michael E.
Publication: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]

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Description

338 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Civil War America

Uniform Title

Civil War America (Series)

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-3105

ISBN

9781469656397
1469656396

LCCN

2019044427

OCLC

1119478016

Author

Woods, Michael E., author.

Title

Arguing until doomsday : Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the struggle for American democracy / Michael E. Woods.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Civil War America

Civil War America (Series)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: MARSHALL UNIVERSITY. EXAMINES WAYS STRIFE WITHIN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HASTENED THE CIVIL WAR.

Chronological Term

1783-1899

Research Call Number

JFE 21-3105

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