Lincoln and the decision for war : the northern response to secession / / Russell McClintock

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822481503321
• Autore: McClintock Russell
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2008
• ISBN: 979-88-908815-8-8; 1-4696-0379-9; 0-8078-8632-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Collana: Civil War America
• Disciplina: 973.7
• Soggetti: Secession - Southern States - Public opinion; Nationalism - Northeastern States - History - 19th century; Political culture - Northeastern States - History - 19th century; Public opinion - Northeastern States - History - 19th century; United States Politics and government 1861-1865 Decision making; United States Politics and government 1857-1861 Decision making; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Causes; Northeastern States Politics and government 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-370) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. On the Brink of the Precipice: The Election of 1860; 2. I Would Not Endanger the Perpetuity of This Union: November; 3. Proportions of Which I Had but a Faint Conception: Early December; 4. The Issues of the Late Campaign Are Obsolete: Late December; 5. We Know Not What a Day or Two or an Hour May Bring Forth: December–January; 6. One's Opinions Change Fast in Revolutionary Times: January–February; 7. The Storm Is Weathered: January–February, Revisited; 8. A Calm Pervades the Political World: March; 9. Any Decision Would Be Preferable to This Uncertainty: March–April10. Everybody Now Is for the Union: April–May; Conclusion: Shall It Be Peace, or a Sword?; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern ; states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking book, the first major study in over 50 years of how the North handled the secession crisis, McClintock follows the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus. From small towns to big cities and from state capitals to Washington, D.C., McClintock highlights individuals both powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways ordinary citizens, party activists, state officials, and national leaders interacted to influence the