No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North

by Adam I.P. Smith and Adam I.P. Smith

During the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield. Yet politicians and voters alike claimed that partisanship was dangerous in a time of national crisis.

In No Party Now, Adam I. P. Smith challenges the prevailing view that political processes in the North somehow helped the Union be more stable and effective in the war. Instead, Smith argues, early efforts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195188659
• ISBN13: 9780195188653
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.4"