James Roger Sharp is professor of history at Syracuse University.
The hindsight of linear vision does not capture the reality of struggle and genuine peril that the American government faced from proto-party sectional rivalry during the first decade after constitutional ratification. Sharp (history, Syracuse Univ.) here attempts to correct this ``historic myopathy.'' He reminds us that only the genuine patriots' strong desire to see the republic survive kept the Civil War from exploding 60 years prematurely. Sharp offers clearly defined objectives and concise, accurate history to keep the reader's interest. The result is a fine historical treatise. Hyperbole in the introduction is adroitly flattened in the text. Strongly recommended for academic and public libraries.-- Harry Willems, Kansas Lib. System, Iola
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