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100	1		_aKreitner, Richard, _d1990-
245	1	0	_aBreak it up : _bsecession, division, and the secret history of America's imperfect union / _cRichard Kreitner.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bLittle, Brown and Company, _c2020.
264		4	_�2020.
300			_aviii, 486 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 383-468) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: The disunited states -- Part I: A vast, unwieldy machine. Join, or die -- Only united in name -- Constitutional crisis -- Part II: Irreconcilable differences. Reign of alarm -- The lost cause of the north -- This unholy union -- Endangered by greatness -- Part III: The earthquake comes. Wide awake -- Going, going, gone -- The great red river -- Part IV: Return of the repressed. The war was fought in vain -- Divided we stand -- The cold civil war -- Conclusion: What is all this worth?
520			_aFrom journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account" of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn't limited to the South or the nineteenth century. With a scholar's command and a journalist's curiosity, Kreitner takes readers on a revolutionary journey through American history, revealing the power and persistence of disunion movements in every era and region. Each New England town after Plymouth was a secession from another; the thirteen colonies viewed their Union as a means to the end of securing independence, not an end in itself; George Washington feared separatism west of the Alleghenies; Aaron Burr schemed to set up a new empire; John Quincy Adams brought a Massachusetts town's petition for dissolving the United States to the floor of Congress; and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison denounced the Constitution as a pro-slavery pact with the devil. From the "cold civil war" that pits partisans against one another to the modern secession movements in California and Texas, the divisions that threaten to tear America apart today have centuries-old roots in the earliest days of our Republic. Richly researched and persuasively argued, Break It Up will help readers make fresh sense of our fractured age.
650		0	_aSecession _zUnited States.
650		0	_aPolarization (Social sciences) _zUnited States.
650		0	_aStates' rights (American politics)
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _y21st century.
651		0	_aUnited States _xPolitics and government _xPhilosophy.
648		7	_a2000-2099 _2fast.
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