{"product_id":"the-worlds-of-james-buchanan-and-thaddeus-stevens-place-personality-and-politics-in-the-civil-war-era-9780807170816","title":"The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens\u003c\/i\u003e examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery debate divided his peers and the political system. Thaddeus Stevens, meanwhile, as Whig turned Republican, invested in the federal government to encourage economic development and social reform, especially antislavery and Republican Reconstruction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Considering Buchanan and Stevens's divergent lives alongside their political and social worlds reveals the dynamics and directions of American politics, especially northern interests and identities. While focusing on these individuals, the contributors also explore the roles of parties and patronage in informing political loyalties and behavior. They further track personal connections across lines of gender and geography and underline the importance of details like who regularly dined and conversed with whom, the complex social milieu of Washington, the role of rumor in determining political allegiances, and the ways personality and failing relationships mattered in a hothouse of national politics fueled by slavery and expansion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens\u003c\/i\u003e 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, civil war, and reconstruction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael J. Birkner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 9.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807170816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael J. Birkner\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at Gettysburg College and author or editor of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eSamuel L. Southard: Jeffersonian Whig, McCormick of Rutgers: Scholar, Teacher, Public Historian, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Governors of New Jersey. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRandall M. Miller\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at St. Joseph's University and the author, coauthor, or coeditor of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Northern Home Front during the Civil War; Lincoln and Leadership: Military, Political, and Religious Decision Making;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans' First Generation. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eJohn W. Quist\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of history at Shippensburg University and the author of \u003ci\u003eMichigan's War: The Civil War in Documents\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRestless Visionaries: The Social Roots of Antebellum Reform in Alabama and Michigan.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40671732465779,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":80.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e859ef8f-0f5b-4ea3-afce-ed1c441f3866.jpg?v=1674055496","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-worlds-of-james-buchanan-and-thaddeus-stevens-place-personality-and-politics-in-the-civil-war-era-9780807170816","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}