The Democratic Collapse Ruth Jennison Sharpley-Whiting is a new

Sharpley-Whiting is a new

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The Democratic Collapse Ruth Jennison Sharpley-Whiting is a newThis fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861. Whereas the cultural politics of gender had bolstered Democratic unity through the 1850s, the Lecompton crisis and John Brown's raid revealed that white manhood and its association with familial and national protection meant disparate and