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The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens - Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era (Hardcover)
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The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens - Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era (Hardcover)
Series: Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
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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.
Considering Buchanan and Stevens's divergent lives alongside their
political and social worlds reveals the dynamics and directions of
American politics, especially northern interests and identities.
While focusing on these individuals, the contributors also explore
the roles of parties and patronage in informing political loyalties
and behavior. They further track personal connections across lines
of gender and geography and underline the importance of details
like who regularly dined and conversed with whom, the complex
social milieu of Washington, the role of rumor in determining
political allegiances, and the ways personality and failing
relationships mattered in a hothouse of national politics fueled by
slavery and expansion. The essays in The Worlds of James Buchanan
and Thaddeus Stevens collectively invite further consideration of
how parties, personality, place, and private lives influenced the
political interests and actions of an age affected by race,
religion, region, civil war, and reconstruction.
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