The Shrine of Party

?[This book] makes an important and unusual contribution to historical interpretation of political conflict in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. It turns out that, based upon a more complete analysis of Congressional voting than has heretofore been accomplished, sectional bifurcations of national political conflict did not occur in the Congressional setting as early as historians like Avery Craven thought.?-American Academy of Political and Social Science. Annals