Chapters: The Political Antecedents - The Republican Triumph of 1860 - The Crisis - Curtin Rides the Tide - Triumph of the Cameron Machine - The First Fruits of Victory - The Emergence of John White Geary - The Cameronian Path of Empire - The Witches' Brew of the Geary Regime - Voices of Protest - The Triumph of Reaction.
Summary
Scholarly account of how the Democrats lost Pennsylvania because of their stance in the Civil War, and how the corrupt Simon Cameron, rather than reformers like Andrew Curtin and Thaddeus Stevens, took their place.
