Fate of Their Country Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

Name: Fate of Their Country Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War
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ISBN: 9780809044399

ISBN-10: 0809044390

ISBN-13: 9780809044399

Edition: 2005

Authors: Michael F. Holt

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How partisan politics lead to the Civil War What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession and war did not arise from two irreconcilable economies any more than from moral objections to slavery. Short-sighted politicians were to blame. Rarely looking beyond the next election, the two dominant political parties used the emotionally charged and largely chimerical issue of slavery's extension westward to pursue reelection and settle political scores, all the while inexorably dragging the…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.20" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.352