Title Arguing until doomsday : Stephen Douglas, Jefferson Davis, and the struggle for American democracy / Michael E. Woods

Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Series Civil War America Civil War America (Series) Summary "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['s] and Douglas's fatefully entwined lives and careers to the center of the Civil War era"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861. Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. SUBJECT Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 fast Douglas, Stephen A. (Stephen Arnold), 1813-1861 fast Subject Democratic Party (U.S.) -- History SUBJECT Democratic Party (U.S.) fast Subject Slavery -- History -- 19th century -- Political aspects -- United States HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) Politics and government Slavery -- Political aspects SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1845-1861. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140435 United States -- History -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140186 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781469656410 1469656418 9781469656403 146965640X

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