Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : conserving the happy republic
  • The northern men and their national principle : Jacksonian ideology, popular sovereignty, and White men's democracy, 1847-1854
  • Conservatism and fanaticism : the political ideology of the democracy before the Civil War
  • Resisting realignment : Democrats respond to partisan and racial disorder, 1854-1855
  • Welcoming realignment : Democrats, old Whigs, and the conservative diaspora
  • Doughface triumphant : James Buchanan's manly conservatism and the election of 1856
  • The other Douglas debates : Democrats debate White supremacy and popular sovereignty
  • Conclusion : American democracy, American conservatism.