Patricide in the House Divided

A Psychological Interpretation of Lincoln and His Age

By: George B. Forgie

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Paperback | 1 January 1981 | Edition Number 1

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George B. Forgie argues that the crisis of the Union was decisively structured by one obvious, overbearing fact: the dominant figures in American public life in the 1850s were born in the early Republic. They were raised to think of its founders as immortal fathers whom they must imitate, themselves as brothers, and the Union as an inherited house to be preserved.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Science Science in General History Theory & Methods Historiography

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
The Founding Heroes and the Post-Heroic Generation	p. 13
Lincoln at the Lyceum: the Problem Ofambition in the Post-Heroic Age	p. 55
The Failed Rebellion of Young America Against the Fathers (i): the Illusion of Boundlessness	p. 89
The Failed Rebellion of Young America Against the Fathers (ii): Stephen A. Douglas and the Problem of Slavery in the Territories	p. 123
Sentimental Regression from Politics to Domesticity	p. 159
The Literature of Fratricide: Civil War as Memory and Prospect	p. 201
Abraham Lincoln and the Melodrama of the House Divided	p. 243
The New Birth of Freedom	p. 283
Index	p. 295
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