The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War by Holt, Michael F.
The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War by Holt, Michael F.

The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

How partisan politics lead to the Civil War What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael...
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Author: Michael F. Holt
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The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War by Holt, Michael F.

The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

$41.43
The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War by Holt, Michael F.

The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

$41.43
Author: Michael F. Holt
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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How partisan politics lead to the Civil War

What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics. In this brilliant and succinct book, Holt distills a lifetime of scholarship to demonstrate that secession and war did not arise from two irreconcilable economies any more than from moral objections to slavery. Short-sighted politicians were to blame. Rarely looking beyond the next election, the two dominant political parties used the emotionally charged and largely chimerical issue of slavery's extension westward to pursue reelection and settle political scores, all the while inexorably dragging the nation towards disunion.

Despite the majority opinion (held in both the North and South) that slavery could never flourish in the areas that sparked the most contention from 1845 to 1861-the Mexican Cession, Oregon, and Kansas-politicians in Washington, especially members of Congress, realized the partisan value of the issue and acted on short-term political calculations with minimal regard for sectional comity. War was the result.

Including select speeches by Lincoln and others, The Fate of Their Country openly challenges us to rethink a seminal moment in America's history.

Author: Michael F. Holt
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Published: 06/20/2005
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780809044399

About the Author

Michael F. Holt teaches at the University of Virginia and is author of numerous books, including The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party and The Political Crisis of the 1850s, and the co-author of The Civil War and Reconstruction (3rd edition).




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