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Arguing until Doomsday - Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy (Hardcover)
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Arguing until Doomsday - Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the Struggle for American Democracy (Hardcover)
Series: Civil War America
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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
and Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers to the center of
the Civil War era. Operating on personal, partisan, and national
levels, Woods traces the deep roots of Democrats' internal strife,
with fault lines drawn around fundamental questions of property
rights and majority rule. Neither belief in white supremacy nor
expansionist zeal could reconcile Douglas and Davis's factions as
their constituents formed their own lines in the proverbial soil of
westward expansion. The first major reinterpretation of the
Democratic Party's internal schism in more than a generation,
Arguing until Doomsday shows how two leading antebellum politicians
ultimately shattered their party and hastened the coming of the
Civil War.
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