Madness rules the hour : Charleston, 1860 and the mania for war / Paul Starobin.

In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston�...

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Main Author: Starobin, Paul (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Target : Charleston -- "Stomach for the fight" -- "Men, women, and Rhetts" -- "I mistrust our own people" -- "Prowling about us" -- "The Charleston boy" -- "Build high the shaft!" -- To Charleston, "with three hundred kegs of beer" -- "Screaming like panthers" -- "Fourth of July" -- "I foresee nothing but disaster" -- "They would have been mobbed" -- "Black as charcoal" -- "Do not blink" -- "To set us free" -- "Hunted down" -- The gentleman revolutionary -- Secession Inc. -- "A large and coarse man" -- "Our lives, our fortunes ..." -- "Is it for manly resistance?" -- "God have mercy on my country" -- "Hurra for Lincoln" -- The judge -- "Will not delay cool the ardor?" -- "To arms, citizens!" -- The gospel of secession -- Catch me if you can -- "I have, doubtless, many faults" -- The flight of reason -- "To dare" -- "Wine and rejoicing" -- "Blood must be shed!" -- "City of desolation." 
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