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Break It Up
Richard Kreitner
其他書名
Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union
出版
Hachette UK
, 2020-08-18
主題
Political Science / American Government / National
History / United States / State & Local / General
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
ISBN
0316510599
9780316510592
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=crGsDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account"
of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner).
The novel and fiery thesis of
Break It Up
is simple: The United States has never lived up to its name—and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as
Break It Up
shows, the seduction of secession wasn’t limited to the South or the nineteenth century. It was there at our founding and has never gone away.
With a scholar’s command and a journalist’s curiosity, Richard Kreitner takes readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, revealing the power and persistence of disunion movements in every era and region. Each New England town after Plymouth was a secession from another; the thirteen colonies viewed their Union as a means to the end of securing independence, not an end in itself; George Washington feared separatism west of the Alleghenies; Aaron Burr schemed to set up a new empire; John Quincy Adams brought a Massachusetts town’s petition for dissolving the United States to the floor of Congress; and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison denounced the Constitution as a pro-slavery pact with the devil.
From the “cold civil war” that pits partisans against one another to the modern secession movements in California and Texas, the divisions that threaten to tear America apart today have centuries-old roots in the earliest days of our Republic. Richly researched and persuasively argued,
Break It Up
will help readers make fresh sense of our fractured age.