ISBN
9781606353530
Price
$45.00
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Abstract
Paul Taylor’s The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known: The North’s Union Leagues in the American Civil War reestablishes the significance of an underappreciated force in America’s political past. Once celebrated roundly for their contributions to Union victory, Union Leaguers have faded somewhat from our collective national memory. However understandable such amnesia might be given the trend of historians in recent decades to question the significance of everyday politics in the lives of wartime northerners, it is nevertheless unfortunate. Indeed, Taylor argues that the collective effect of the Union Leaguers on wartime Northern politics and the broader home front was anything but unimportant or inconsequential.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.21.2.10
Recommended Citation
Wesley, Timothy
(2019)
"The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known: The North’s Union Leagues in the American Civil War,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 21
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Iss.
2
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.21.2.10
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol21/iss2/10
