TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bogue,Allan G.
TI  - The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate 
SN  - 9781501722264
AV  - JK2357 1861 
U1  - 328.73/073 
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - U.S. History
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Part I. MEN, CONTEXT, AND PATTERNS --; 1. The Senators --; 2. Committees, Rules, and Leaders --; 3. Radicals and Moderates --; 4. Connections --; Part II THE SUBSTANCE OF DISAGREEMENT --; 5. Slaves, Soldiers, and Taxes --; 6. Emancipation and "Human" Rights --; 7. Punishment and Rehabilitation --; 8. Courts, Border States, and Self-Control --; 9. Designs and Perspectives --; 10. Afterword --; APPENDIX A. Roll-Call Analysis Procedures --; APPENDIX B. The Screening Procedure for the Selection of "Divisive" Votes --; APPENDIX C. Roll Calls Used Initially in Scaling Analysis --; APPENDIX D Divisive Roll Calls Radical- Moderate Division --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Taking a quantitative approach, Allan G. Bogue assesses the nature of radical and conservative Republicanism in the Civil War Senate, documents the distinctions among the senators, and clarifies the factors that encouraged or discouraged factionalism. The Earnest Men is divided into two parts: "Men, Context, and Patterns" and "The Substance of Disagreement." In Part One, Bogue investigates the backgrounds of the senators and the institutional structure of the Senate, and he examines the character of leadership exercised in the Senate chamber. He then uses roll-call analysis as a means of establishing distinctions between radical and moderate senators. To account for their voting patterns, he considers living arrangements, seating, regionalism, and election results.In Part Two, Bogue looks closely at the debates in the Senate in order to ascertain the nature of disagreements between radical and moderate Republicans in such policy-making areas as slavery, taxation, human rights, punishment and rehabilitation, and legislation affecting the border states. Taking issue with the idea that the Republicans were essentially unified on the issues of the day, he finds that their differences were widespread and important. A major study of the Senate in one of its most productive periods, The Earnest Men is a remarkable combination of systematic analysis and narrative history
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722264
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