The Disruption of American Democracy is a book published by
American historian Roy Franklin Nichols in 1948, which won
the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for History.
In the book, Nichols argued that the American Civil War was not
fundamentally the product of underlying social and economic
forces. Instead, he blames the machinations of "vote-hungry"
politicians who calibrated their appeals in a culturally diverse
society, which was speedily growing, so as to encourage regional
and cultural groups to pursue objectives that led to the breakdown
of the Union, something that most didn't seek or foresee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disruption_of_American_Democracy
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