The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth...
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The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act by Malavasic, Alice Elizabeth

The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act

¥11,338

The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act

¥11,338
Author: Alice Elizabeth Malavasic
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Pushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery. Malavasic focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, and Robert M. T. Hunter and James Murray Mason of Virginia, known by their contemporaries as the "F Street Mess" for the location of the house they shared. Unlike the earlier and better-known triumvirate of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster, the F Street Mess was a functioning oligarchy within the U.S. Senate whose power was based on shared ideology, institutional seniority, and personal friendship.

By centering on their most significant achievement--forcing a rewrite of the Nebraska bill that repealed the restriction against slavery above the 36 degrees 30′ parallel--Malavasic demonstrates how the F Street Mess's mastery of the legislative process led to one of the most destructive pieces of legislation in United States history and helped pave the way to secession.



Author: Alice Elizabeth Malavasic
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/20/2017
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.07h x 6.30w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781469635521


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2018

About the Author
Malavasic, Alice Elizabeth: - Alice Elizabeth Malavasic is associate professor of history at Hudson Valley Community College.

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