Northern Men With Southern Loyalties: The Democratic Party and the Sectional Crisis

摘要

Between the elections of 1828 and 1860, Democrats dominated the presidency. In the 1850s, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, Northern Democrats from New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, respectively, tried to steer the nation through sectional tensions that would rupture with the election of a Republican in 1860. In this volume, Michael Landis offers a detailed study of the political leadership of Northern Democrats through the crisis of the 1850s.