Patricide in the House Divided: A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age

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 & Co Inc
• 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.