Preface

Introduction

1. "No party now but all for our country"
Political Parties and the Public Safety

2. "Blustering treason in every assembly"
The Revolt against Politics in 1863

3. "He must be entrenching"
Political Parties and the Death of Strategy

4. "Odious to honourable men"
The Press and Its Freedom in the Civil War

5. "Times of corruption and demoralization"
The Futility of a Loyal Opposition

6. "Paroxysms of rage and fear"
The Republican Part at War

7. "The Civil War and the Two-Party System"
A Reconsideration

Notes

Index

Mark E. Neely, Jr., is McCabe-Greer Professor of the History of the Civil War Era, Pennsylvania State University, and the author of a number of books, including his Pulitzer prize-winning The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties.

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