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020 _a9780813045030
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040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
050 0 0 _aE436
_b.J36 2012
082 0 0 _a973.6/8
_223
245 0 0 _aJames Buchanan and the coming of the Civil War
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by John W. Quist and Michael J. Birkner.
260 _aGainesville :
_bUniversity Press of Florida,
_cc2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (300 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: Bum rap or bad leadership? -- James Buchanan, Dred Scott, and the whisper of conspiracy / Paul Finkelman -- Prelude to armageddon: James Buchanan, Brigham Young, and a president's initiation to bloodshed / William P. MacKinnon -- General Jackson is dead: James Buchanan, Stephen A. Douglas, and Kansas policy / Nicole Etcheson -- In defense of doughface diplomacy: a reevaluation of the foreign policy of James Buchanan / John M. Belohlavek -- President James Buchanan: executive leadership and the crisis of the democracy / Michael A. Morrison -- The South has been wronged: James Buchanan and the secession crisis / Jean H. Baker -- "In the midst of a great revolution": the northern response to the secession crisis / William G. Shade -- Joseph Holt, James Buchanan, and the secession crisis / Daniel W. Crofts -- A conversation with William W. Freehling and Michael F. Holt, September 19, 2008 / Moderated by John W. Quist -- Epilogue: James Buchanan's Civil War / Michael J. Birkner.
520 _aAn edited volume examining the presidency of James Buchanan and his role engaging the complexities of the debate surrounding the president immediately before Lincoln.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
600 1 0 _aBuchanan, James,
_d1791-1868.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1857-1861.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aBirkner, Michael J.,
_d1950-
700 1 _aQuist, John W.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813045030/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c32335
_d32335