Author: Barnaby Rogerson

Title: Patricide in the House Divided

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 320

Release Date: 1981-01-17

Details: "One of the most ambitious, ingenious, and sophisticated works of psychohistory yet to appear. . . .Forgie's thesis challenges an entire tradition of American historiography." -David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books George B. Forgie argues that the crisis of the Union was decisively structured by one obvious, overbearing fact: the dominant figures in American public life in the 1850s were born in the early Republic. They were raised to think of its founders as immortal fathers whom they must imitate, themselves as brothers, and the Union as an inherited house to be preserved.

EAN: 9780393000351

Package Dimensions: Height: 8 Inches, Length: 5 Inches, Weight: 0.77382253962 Pounds, Width: 1 Inches

Languages: en