The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality and Politics in Civil War America

Authors

Michael J. Birkner, Gettysburg CollegeFollow
Randall M. Miller, Saint Joseph's University
John W. Quist, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

Document Type

Book

Files

Description

The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political worlds they inhabited and informed. Building upon previous scholarship on James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens, the contributors track their personal connections across lines of gender and geography and underline the importance of elementary facts of political association—such as with whom one ate and conversed on a regular basis, the complex social milieu of Washington, and the role of rumor—in determining relationships and political allegiances. The essays in this volume collectively invite further consideration of how parties, personality, place, and private lives influenced the political interests and actions of an age affected by race, religion, region, and civil war.

ISBN

9780807170816

Publication Date

6-2019

Publisher

Louisiana State University Press

City

Baton Rouge, LA

Department 1

History

Comments

This book's introduction is available to download.

Copyright Note

This is the publisher's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.

Recommended Citation

Birkner, Michael, Randall Miller, and John Quist, eds. The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality and Politics in Civil War America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019.