About the Author Tyler Anbinder is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wyoming. He specializes in Civil War era politics and American immigration.
"The main thrust of Nativism and Slavery, and what makes it both
interesting and valuable, is the very powerful and convincing
argument put forward by the author, and buttressed by numerous
statistical tables, charts and maps, that the unparalleled success
of the Know Nothings in the mid-1850s occurred because Northerners
chose to express their intense antislavery sentiments through this
party."--New York Times Book Review
"Perceptive....Tyler Anbinder has solved the mystery of how the
antislavery tail could wag the nativist dog....This fine book
steers the study of antebellum politics back on course from the
diversion of ethnocultural historians."--The New Republic
"An important and provocative book."--CHOICE
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