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3 - The Press Goes to War

Partisan Advocacy & Resistance

from Part I - Mobilizing Partisan Warfare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2020

Nathan P. Kalmoe
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Chapter 3 shows how polarized elites guided partisan followers on the war and its elections with nationally representative content analysis from 24 newspapers in the loyal states. I find large partisan gaps in war support, enlistment advocacy, and rhetoric that rationalized support and direct participation in the war’s violence. The newspapers also show extreme partisan vilification within the North, which helps support my claim that partisanship defined contentious Civil War politics, beyond the primary partisan violence inaugurated by the rebellion.

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With Ballots and Bullets
Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War
, pp. 53 - 74
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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