A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) Print even secured the Democratic nomination

even secured the Democratic nomination for president in 1864

224 pages with 150 pictures

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Instead of finding glory and victory—two objectives with which he was intimately familiar—Stuart reaped stinging criticism and substantial blame for one of the Confederacy’s most stunning and unexpected battlefield defeats

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (Andrew F. Lang - CH) Print even secured the Democratic nominationby Andrew F. Lang Most mid nineteenth century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England,