The center could not hold : Congressman William H. English and his antebellum political times /

The story of a self-deceived congressman who believed, from his misreading of the Southern mind, that Civil War could be prevented.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schimmel, Elliott, 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ocala, Florida : Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Youth and apprenticeship
  • Persistant factionalism and the road to the House
  • The Democratic creed
  • Hydra-headed headaches
  • The democracy survives
  • Lecompton
  • The English bill
  • Young America revisited
  • The irrepressible conflict.