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jrlee27's review against another edition
4.0
Long book: 980 pages of text much of it concerned with all kinds of election results data. The shear quantity of data was a drag for me and I think without it the book could have been reduced to less than a quarter of the size and still have conveyed a decent impression of the history. Indeed, so much data may actually get in the way. As it is I don't think one can deny that it is a comprehensive political history of the period and if one wants to get some knowledge of the antecedents (going back decades) of the Republican party and the Civil War I don't know of an alternative and, believe me, I would've preferred something not so weighted down with data.
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