Author: Silbey, Joel H,
Title: A Respectable Minority: the Democractic party in the Civil War Era 1840-1868.
Description: NY, Norton, (1977). 1st ed ss. VG PB. The largely overlooked period for Democrats. Pictured as stumblingd, obsolete and anachronistic, if not. flirting with treason. It was, after 1860, a badly divided minority - out of power in the midst of a war in which the Republicans did their best to equate anti-government postions with disloyalty. All of this was new, strange, and very difficult. Sibley is professor of hisory at Conell University. His other books include The The Shrine of Party: Congressional Voting Behavior 1841-1852. The transformation of Ameircan Politics 1848-1860; and Political Ideology and Voting Behavior in the Age of Jackson.

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