Join us for a book premiere with LSU professor Jonathan Ear
le. \; \;
A new historical analysis &mdash\;HE
HAS THE PEOPLE&mdash\;offers a bold new reading of the most pivot
al election in American history.
When John Brown's men stormed Har pers Ferry in the fall of 1859\, the compromises that had held the country together for decades came undone. The 1860 election was no longer about w ho would be president &mdash\; it was about how soon war would follow the inauguration.
\nDrawing on long-neglected documents\, Earle captures the full drama of the race: how Lincoln outmaneuvered Democrat Stephen Do uglas and presumptive Republican favorite William Henry Seward. Lincoln an d his circle ran a brilliant campaign\, harnessing Northern anger\, rising antislavery sentiment\, and deep fractures within both the Democratic Par ty and the country itself. His platform lived in his speeches&mdash\;a vis ion of how the nation might endure the coming crisis&mdash\;but behind the commanding rhetoric ran a sophisticated\, strikingly modern political mac hine.
\nABOUT THE AUTHOR
\nJonathan Earle is the Donald Cecil Delaune Professor and Dean of the Roger Hadfield Ogden Ho nors College at Louisiana State University\, where he is also a professor of History and African &\; African American Studies. He is the author o f \;Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil\, wi nner of the James Broussard First Book Prize from the Society of Historian s of the \;Early \;American Republic\; \;John Brown&rsquo\ ;s Raid: A Brief History\; and editor (with Diane Mutti Burke) of&nbs p\;Bleeding Kansas\, Bleeding Missouri: The Long Civil War on the Bord er. He lives in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. \;
\n&ldquo\;From th e Republican convention in the Wigwam to the general election in Wisconsin \, \;Jonathan \;Earle has written the best campaign account since Teddy White&rsquo\;s book on the 1960 election. &ldquo\;
\n&mdash\;J ames Carville
\n\n&ldquo\;Jonathan \;Earle has made good his intention to portray the contest of 1860 as \"the most consequential e lection in American history&mdash\;then and to this day.\" \;He shows the reader a pivotal moment between Union and Disunion\, between a past o f slavery and a future of freedom\, and between a corrupt peace and a tran sformative war that ushered in modern America.&rdquo\;
\nJames M. Mc Pherson\, author of \;Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
\n&ldquo\;This account of the players\, passion\, rituals\, and (a t times) barely control bedlam of the \"most transformative election in Am erican history\" explains how\, against all odds\, a minor Illinois politi cian prevailed within a five-person contest. Based on first-hand accounts and highlighting the role of contingency in the election of 1860\, \;J onathan \;Earle&rsquo\; book is a thrilling and illuminating read.&rdq uo\;
\n--Amy S. Greenberg\, George Winfree Professor of American His tory\, Penn State University\, author of \;A Wicked War: Polk\, Cl ay\, Lincoln\, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico
\n\n&ldquo\;Jonathan \;Earle&rsquo\;s \;He Has the People&nbs p\;offers a fresh\, fast-paced account of the transformative year leading to Lincoln&rsquo\;s election. The book is a brief but powerful thrill ride \, filled with chaos and contingencies\, and taking us into the heart of a presidential election that would change the moral and political landscape of America forever.&rdquo\;
\n--Michael Vorenberg\, author of \ ;Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War
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