Break It Up : Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Im : NEW

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ISBN
9780316510578
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316510572
ISBN-13
9780316510578
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24066156211

Product Key Features

Book Title
Break It Up : Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
United States / State & Local / General, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), American Government / National
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Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Author
Richard Kreitner
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Weight
15.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Reviews
"Kreitner effectively cleans the window that stands between us and our history--or what we believed about our history...richly researched, revelatory, disturbing, and essential to those wandering in the mists of American myth."-- Kirkus, starred, "This book reminds us of the important roles compromise and contention have played in American history...Kreitner's incisive analysis delves into how secession, division and other forces that separate Americans have played into the nation's history." -- St. Louis Dispatch
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
320.973
Synopsis
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.

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