To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party

by Heather Cox Richardson

Book Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, "the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses" (Los Angeles Times)

When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet, despite the egalitarian dream...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465024319
• ISBN13: 9780465024315
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 9.3"