The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act (Civil War America)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (516 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06Y3GC5G4 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Alice Elizabeth Malavasic is associate professor of history at Hudson Valley Community College
Hunter and James Murray Mason of Virginia, known by their contemporaries as the "F Street Mess" for the location of the house they shared. Malavasic focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, and Robert M. By centering on their most significant achievement--forcing a rewrite of the Nebraska bill that repealed the restriction against slavery above the 36 degrees 30′ parallel--Malavasic demonstrates how the F Street Mess's mastery of the leg
In this fresh retelling of how four senators came together in 1850 to take control of Congress, Malavasic sheds new light on a lovely conspiracy that is at the heart of the coming of the Civil War. Richards, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This is a timely and unnerving story about the perils of a democratic system built on a Congress dominated by seniority and the powers of committee."—Scott Reynolds Nelson, University of GeorgiaThe argument and research here are first-rate. Malavasic brings t