Christopher Phillips is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He is the co-editor of The Union on Trial: The Political Journals of Judge William Barclay Napton, 1829-1883 and author of Damned Yankee: The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon and Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1790-1860.
"Christopher Phillips has written about people named Marmaduke,
Sappington, Thomas Hart Benton, and 'the Fox, ' about places like
The Boon's Lick, about a horse named Duke Sumner. And he tells good
stories. But this book is about nationality, culture, imagination,
and identity. This is an important work of mature
scholarship."--Emory M. Thomas
"More than a biography, this book about Missouri's secessionist
governor analyzes the antebellum socioeconomic and political
history of a state both literally and figuratively on the
border-between North and South, East and West, freedom and slavery,
modernity and tradition. The reader will come away with enhanced
understanding of why Missouri suffered a vicious civil war within
the larger Civil War."--James M. McPherson
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