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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kreitner, Richard, 1990- author.     Subjects     Secession -- United States.     Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States.     States' rights (American politics)     United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.     United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kreitner, Richard, 1990- author.       by title:      Break it up : secess...         MARC Display

Break it up : secession, division, and the secret history of America's imperfect union / Richard Kreitner. by Kreitner, Richard, 1990- author. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. Subjects Secession -- United States.   Polarization (Social sciences) -- United States.   States' rights (American politics)   United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.   United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy. ISBN:  9780316510608 (hardcover) : 0316510602 (hardcover) : Description:  viii, 486 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  From 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.01 Kr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973.01 Kr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.01 Kr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.01 Kr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.01 Kr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.01 Kr Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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