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Northern Men with Southern Loyalties is an archival tour de force informed by original and insightful research. Michael Todd Landis writes well and makes dizzyingly complex political struggles clear and straightforward. His accounts of the Buchanan administration's dealings with the Dred Scott decision and the Lecompton controversy are among the best I have read. -Jonathan Earle, Roger Hadfield Ogden Dean, LSU Honors College, author of Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854 Michael Todd Landis thoroughly proves with primary sources that northern Democrats truly did sell their political souls to southerners. Amazingly to me, Landis includes the voices of politicians' constituents on these matters. From both the North and the South, these voices reinforce his arguments, his keen analysis, and his observations. Northern Men with Southern Loyalties covers an important topic, and the author's mining of archival sources is truly remarkable. -Eric H. Walther, University of Houston, author of William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War

Northern Men with Southern Loyalties is an archival tour de force informed by original and insightful research. Michael Todd Landis writes well and makes dizzyingly complex political struggles clear and straightforward. His accounts of the Buchanan administration's dealings with the Dred Scott decision and the Lecompton controversy are among the best I have read. -Jonathan Earle, University of Kansas, author of Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854 Michael Todd Landis thoroughly proves with primary sources that northern Democrats truly did sell their political souls to southerners. Amazingly to me, Landis includes the voices of politicians' constituents on these matters. From both the North and the South, these voices reinforce his arguments, his keen analysis, and his observations. Northern Men with Southern Loyalties covers an important topic, and the author's mining of archival sources is truly remarkable. -Eric H. Walther, University of Houston, author of William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War

Northern Men with Southern Loyalties is an archival tour de force informed by original and insightful research. Michael Todd Landis writes well and makes dizzyingly complex political struggles clear and straightforward. His accounts of the Buchanan administration's dealings with the Dred Scott decision and the Lecompton controversy are among the best I have read. -Jonathan Earle, Roger Hadfield Ogden Dean, LSU Honors College, author of Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854 Michael Todd Landis thoroughly proves with primary sources that northern Democrats truly did sell their political souls to southerners. Amazingly to me, Landis includes the voices of politicians' constituents on these matters. From both the North and the South, these voices reinforce his arguments, his keen analysis, and his observations. Northern Men with Southern Loyalties covers an important topic, and the author's mining of archival sources is truly remarkable. -Eric H. Walther, University of Houston, author of William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War In Northern Men with Southern Loyalties, nineteenth-century U.S. Democratic party operatives come alive. They argue and pontificate, but just as important they also pull wires, manipulate seemingly arcane rules, and adjust party procedures. Nobody has explained northern Democratic partisan process better than Michael Todd Landis, and nobody has ever made it clearer that partisan process explained how government worked, and how it fell apart in 1860. -Chandra Manning, Georgetown University, author of What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War In this crisply argued book, Michael Todd Landis provides an expose of the inner machinations of the Slave Power conspiracy: how proslavery Northern Democrats, in deference to the party's Southern grandees, used machine politics, bribery, patronage, fear-mongering and intimidation to try to purge the party of antislavery voices. Landis's argument that doughface politicians willfully defied the wishes of their constituents is provocative and insightful. -Elizabeth R. Varon, University of Virginia, author of Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859

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Michael Todd Landis is Assistant Professor of History at Tarleton State University.

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