The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856

ISBN13: 9780195055016ISBN10: 0195055012 Paperback, 582 pages
Mar 1988,  In Stock

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Winner of the Avery O. Craven Award of the Organization of American Historians

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"[The] definitive political history of the early 1850s....Gienapp offers fresh, new interpretations of Republican beginnings. His chapter on ideology is superb. The bibliography is exhaustive. This is scholarly history at its finest."--Library Journal

"A magnificent achievement. Its sweep is broad, its research astonishingly thorough, its command of detail superb, its analysis compelling. This is absolutely the best book about the formation of the Republican Party ever written."--Michael F. Holt, University of Virginia

"This book provides one of the clearest narratives and analyses of the complex processes by which the American political system was profoundly transformed in the 1850s and the country set on a collision course toward civil war."--James M. McPherson, Princeton University

Product Details

582 pages; 6 x 9; ISBN13: 978-0-19-505501-6ISBN10: 0-19-505501-2

About the Author(s)

William E. Gienapp, Professor of History, Harvard University

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