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When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern state governments to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to react. In this particular groundbreaking audiobook, the first major analysis in over 50 years of the way the North managed the secession turmoil, McClintock practices the decision-making process from bitter partisan rancor to consensus. From small towns to big places and from express capitals to Washington, D.C., McClintock highlights individuals both powerful and obscure to demonstrate the ways normal citizens, get together activists, state officials, and national leaders interacted to affect the Northern response from what was essentially a politics turmoil. He argues that although Northerners' reactions to Southern secession were grasped and indicated through partisan newspaper publishers and officials, the decision fell into the hands of ever-smaller handful of people until finally it was Abraham Lincoln only who choose if the future of the American republic was to be identified through serenity or a sword.
