The Republicans : from Lincoln to Bush /
Robert Allen Rutland.
Bok Engelsk 1996 · Electronic books
| Utgitt | Columbia, Mo. : : University of Missouri Press, , c1996.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xi, 277 p. ) : ill. ;
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Democratic domination of the House and Senate come to an abrupt end. In a crisp, highly readable style, Rutland begins by explaining how the "obnoxious" Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 overturned the Missouri Compromise, inflamed the North, and caused the collapse of the Whig and American parties. The result was the birth of the Republican party, whose purpose was to oppose the Democrats and stop the spread of slavery. Abraham Lincoln was elected the first Republican.. - President in 1860.. - The Republican party has always been fascinating to those who subscribe to its principles, as well as to those who take an alternative stand on the issues. In The Republicans: From Lincoln to Bush, Robert Allen Rutland has brought a clear and concise understanding of this political party to the general reader. The book is a lucid and fast-paced overview of the Republican party from its beginnings in the 1850s through the 1994 congressional elections, which saw the.
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| ISBN | 0826210902
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