The F Street Mess : how Southern senators rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act / Alice Elizabeth Malavasic.

SeriesCivil War America
Civil War America (Series) ^A325557
Abstract "Malavasic argues that some Southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the interests of slavery ... focuses her argument on Senators David Rice Atchison of Missouri, Andrew Pickens Butler of South Carolina, and Robert M. T. Hunter and James Murray Mason of Virginia, known by their contemporaries as the "F Street Mess" for the location of the house they shared. ... the F Street Mess was a functioning oligarchy within the U.S. Senate whose power was based on shared ideology, institutional seniority, and personal friendship"-- provided by publisher.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2017020439
ISBN9781469636474 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1469636476 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781469635521 (pbk : alk. paper)
ISBN1469635526 (pbk : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks E433 .M335 2017 ✔ Available Place Hold