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The Democratic Party heads north, 1877-1962
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ISBN: 0521858275 0521675006 9780511388828 0511388829 9780511611506 0511611501 9780521858274 9780521675000 1107177316 1281254533 9786611254537 0511387830 0511386842 0511385013 0511383142 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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This book examines the dynamics of the American party system and explores how contemporary American politics was formed. Specifically, it asks how the Democrats could become sufficiently competitive in the American North as to be able to construct a national political majority. It rejects the conventional account, based on 'realignment theory', that between the end of Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Revolution, the base level of support for the Democratic party varied greatly from one era to another. Instead, by distinguishing between the 'building blocks' available to the Democrats in coalition formation and the aggregation of those 'blocks' into an actual coalition, the author shows that there was much less variation over time in the available 'blocks' than is usually argued. Neither the economic depression of 1893 nor the New Deal had the impact on the party system that most political scientists claim.

Copperheads : the rise and fall of Lincoln's opponents in the North
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ISBN: 1280846593 0198041888 1429420448 9781429420440 0195306686 9780195306682 9780198041887 9781280846595 9786610846597 6610846596 0199885621 0197712312 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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If Civil War battlefields saw vast carnage, the Northern home-front was itself far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge, spurred secret plots against the Union, and triggered widespread violence, such as the New York City draft riots. And at the heart of all this turmoil stood Northern anti-war Democrats, nicknamed ""Copperheads."". Now, Jennifer L. Weber offers the first full-length portrait of this powerful faction to appear in almost half a century. Weber reveals how the Copperheads came perilously close to defeating Lincoln and ending the war in the South's favor

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