Patricide in the House Divided

by George B. Forgie

“One of the most ambitious, ingenious, and sophisticated works of psychohistory yet to appear. . . .Forgie’s thesis challenges an entire tradition of American historiography.” ―David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books George B. Forgie argues that the crisis of the Union was decisively structured by one obvious, overbearing the dominant figures in American public life in the 1850s were born in the early Republic. They were raised to think of its founders as immortal fathers whom they must imitate, themselves as brothers, and the Union as an inherited house to be preserved.

Genres: History, American History

320 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1979

Reviews

[Benjamin Brown]

Eloquent and compelling. I am blessed to have had Dr. Forgie as a professor.