{"product_id":"race-and-politics-james-a-rawley-9780803289017","title":"Race and Politics: Bleeding Kansas and the Coming of the Civil War","description":"\u003ci\u003eRace and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e offers an analysis of the controversies that followed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The question of whether the still unsettled Kansas Territory should be slave or free divided the nation into hostile and ultimately irreconcilable camps, creating conditions that only civil war could resolve. The author demonstrates, however, that the fundamental issue was not slavery as such but \u003ci\u003erace\u003c\/i\u003e: whether the country, its egalitarian slogans notwithstanding, could tolerate the expansion of African Americans, slave or free. \u003cp\u003e\"Rawley in his introduction, a semi-apologia, questions the need for another book on the Civil War. He answers his own question, giving two reasons: first, to reveal how the Kansas upheaval became a main political preoccupation of the country before the war; second, to emphasize how deeply prejudice pervaded the entire populace, both Northern and Southern. In filling in the structure of these two justifications, Rawley achieves his goal in an admirable way.\"--Gene M. Gressley, \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Based to a considerable degree upon an examination of voluminous manuscript sources. New data relating to inner-political maneuvers, on the part of the Democrats, Whigs, and Republicans are brought forward.\"--\u003ci\u003eAnnals of the American Academy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James a. Rawley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803289014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803289017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.73d","brand":"James a. Rawley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44057344344319,"sku":"9780803289017","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05dc5c90-9aaa-4213-a308-ec8f4bc63b64.jpg?v=1685046437","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/race-and-politics-james-a-rawley-9780803289017","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}