Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The paths of power: congressional career lines and the coming of war
- 2 Lincoln and the “disorderly schoolboys”: a chapter in executive–legislative relations
- 3 An “inquiring disposition”: the investigative process in the House of Representatives
- 4 “God alone can guide us”: authority structures in the House of Representatives
- 5 Conclusion
- Appendix: Representatives and senators who died in office, 1844–1865
- Notes
- Sources cited
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The paths of power: congressional career lines and the coming of war
- 2 Lincoln and the “disorderly schoolboys”: a chapter in executive–legislative relations
- 3 An “inquiring disposition”: the investigative process in the House of Representatives
- 4 “God alone can guide us”: authority structures in the House of Representatives
- 5 Conclusion
- Appendix: Representatives and senators who died in office, 1844–1865
- Notes
- Sources cited
- Index
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- The Congressman's Civil War , pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989