Patricide in the House Divided

By George B. Forgie

Book Overview

George B. Forgie argues that the crisis of the Union was decisively structured by one obvious, overbearing fact: the dominant figures in American public life in the 1850s were born in the early... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393056953
• ISBN13: 9780393056952
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.

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I read Mr. Forgie's book after taking a class that he tought at the University of Texas about the pre-civil war era. While I learned a great deal in his class, his book took the analysis of the pre-civil war era to a new level. In addition to being well written and exciting to read, Mr. Forgie's book takes a unique approaach to the subject by tracing the psychological development of both Lincoln and American society as a whole to explain the mentality of a nation willing to go to war against itself.