The Peculiar Democracy: Southern Democrats in Peace and Civil War

Author/Contributor(s):	Hettle, Wallace
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	06/15/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

An analysis of antebellum politics in terms of the connections between slavery, manhood, and the legacies of Jefferson and Jackson. Hettle shows that war was the greatest test of populist Democratic Party rhetoric that emphasized the shared interests of white men, slaveholder and nonslaveholder alike.