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The Political Thought of the Civil War (Paperback)
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The Political Thought of the Civil War (Paperback)
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Why does the Civil War still speak to us so powerfully? If we
listen to the most thoughtful, forceful, and passionate voices of
that day we find that many of the questions at the heart of that
conflict are also central to the very idea of America-and that many
of them remain unresolved in our own time. The Political Thought of
the Civil War offers us the opportunity to pursue these questions
from a new, critical perspective as leading scholars of American
political science, history, and literature engage in some of the
crucial debates of the Civil War era-and in the process illuminate
more clearly the foundation and fault lines of the American regime.
The essays in this volume use practical dilemmas of the Civil War
to reveal and probe fundamental questions about the status of
slavery and race in the American founding, the tension between
moralism and constitutionalism, and the problem of creating and
sustaining a multiracial society on the basis of the original
principles of the American regime. Adopting a deliberative
approach, the authors revisit the words and deeds of the most
important political actors of era, from William Lloyd Garrison,
John C. Calhoun, and Abraham Lincoln to Alexander Stephens and
Frederick Douglass, with reference to the American Founders and the
architects of Reconstruction. The essays in this volume consider
the difficult choices each of these figures made, the specific
problems they were responding to, and the consequences of those
choices. As this book exposes and explores the theoretical
principles at play within their historical context, it also offers
vivid reminders of how the great controversies surrounding the
Civil War continue to shape American political life to this day.
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