TY - BOOK ID - 61380048 TI - Rift in the Democracy PY - 2016 SN - 151280536X 1512805351 PB - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, DB - UniCat KW - HISTORY / United States / General. UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61380048 AB - Developed rapidly and logically, abounding in color, Rift in the Democracy tells the story of how a handful of politicians used the question of the annexation of Texas as campaign capital and consequently set the stage for the major tragedy of the Civil War. ER -