"[The] definitive political history of the early 1850s...Gienapp
offers fresh, new interpretations of Republican beginnings. His
chapter on ideology is superb. The bibliography is exhaustive. This
is scholarly history at its finest."--Library Journal
"A magnificent achievement. Its sweep is broad, its research
astonishingly thorough, its command of detail superb, its analysis
compelling. This is absolutely the best book about the formation of
the Republican Party ever written."--Michael F. Holt, University of
Virginia
"This book provides one of the clearest narratives and analyses of
the complex processes by which the American political system was
profoundly transformed in the 1850s and the country set on a
collision course toward civil war."--James M. McPherson, Princeton
University
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