TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gallman,J.Matthew
TI  - The Cacophony of Politics: Northern Democrats and the American Civil War
T2  - A Nation Divided Series
SN  - 9780813946573
AV  - JK2260 .G355 2021 
U1  - 324.273609034 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Political parties-United States-History-19th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline of Key Episodes -- Introduction -- I. Becoming an Organized Party -- 1. A Political Collapse -- 2. Stumbling into War -- 3. The Opposition's War -- II. Politics in Communities -- Politics in the Streets -- 4. Politics Is Personal/Politics Is Local -- 5. Politics in the Streets -- III. An Opposition Party -- 6. An Organized War, a Disorganized Party? -- 7. Bracing for an Electoral Clash -- 8. 1864 -- 9. Peace and an Uncertain Future -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Offering a definitive account of the Democratic Party in the North, The Cacophony of Politics shows the limits of ideology and the ways the Civil War--and the nature of nineteenth-century political culture--confounded the Democrats' self-image and exacerbated their divisions, especially over the central issue of slavery.A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era
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