| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Adam I. P. Smith. No Party Now: Politics in the Civil War North. New York: Oxford University Press. 2006. Pp. x, 266. $55.00.

Adam I. P. Smith's book revisits the question raised by Eric McKittrick's influential essay forty years ago: what role did the two-party system play in the North's Civil War? In McKittrick's view, northern wartime dissent was channeled into the party system, offering the North an advantage the South did not share. Recently, historians have challenged that assessment: in The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North (2002), for example, Mark E. Neely, Jr., identifies the ways in which Civil War partisanship in fact threatened the stability of the Union. Smith takes a different tack: examining the fiery electoral battles that marked the homefront over the course of the war, he describes the emergence of a wartime political discourse whose most distinctive characteristic was an antiparty partisanship.

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