The Politics of Disintegration: Political Party Decay in the American Nation, 1840-1900 - Hardcover

Haas, Garland A.

 
9780899509839: The Politics of Disintegration: Political Party Decay in the American Nation, 1840-1900

Synopsis

Viable briefly in the 1840s, the U.S. two-party system became a mechanism for sectional interests by the onset of the Civil War. Examined here are the social, economic and political factors that affected the parties.

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