Young America

Mark A. Lause is a professor of American history at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of A Secret Society History of the Civil War, Race and Radicalism in the Union Army Some Degree of Power: From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the Preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815 and other books.

"Recommended."--Choice  "His method of tracing links between apparently distinct movements has the potential to alter conventional assumptions about nineteenth-century politics and reform. His book is welcome invitation to look at the landscape afresh… Lause makes a sound case for the progressive character of these ideals, points out subsequent developments that consigned those ideals to obscurity, and explains why they have been disregarded,"--Journal of American History"Lause once again does a great job of showing the depth of political currents during this period. He demonstrates the link between antebellum land reform ideals and the rise of post-bellum radicalism, and carries the political history of period beyond the constraints of sectional strife."--Left History