Auteur: Carpenter Daniel Carpenter

Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book Award Winner of the J. David Greenstone Book Prize Winner of the S. M. Lipset Best Book Award This pioneering work of political history recovers the central and lar …

The abolitionists of the mid-nineteenth century have long been painted in extremes–vilified as reckless zealots who provoked the catastrophic bloodletting of the Civil War, or praised as daring and …

Barack Obama’s galvanizing victory in 2008, coming amid the greatest economic crisis since the 1930s, opened the door to major reforms. But the president quickly faced skepticism from supporters and …