- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 289 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- An edited volume examining the presidency of James Buchanan and his role engaging the complexities of the debate surrounding the president immediately before Lincoln.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: 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.
- Call Number
- IKA 13-4219
- ISBN
- 9780813044262 (alk. paper)
- 081304426X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012031869
- OCLC
- 779873002
- Title
James Buchanan and the coming of the Civil War / edited by John W. Quist and Michael J. Birkner.
- Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
Quist, John W.
Birkner, Michael J., 1950-
- Research Call Number
IKA 13-4219