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Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King by Thomas J. Balcerski, and: The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era ed. by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller and John W. Quist (review)

Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King by Thomas J.... Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King. By Thomas J. Balcerski. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 337. Cloth, $34.95.) The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era. Edited by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller, and John W. Quist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. Pp. 279. Cloth, $47.50.) James Buchanan is having a moment. As current events threaten to dis- place him from his habitual ranking as the worst-ever president, scholars are paying renewed attention to his political career and to his personal life. In Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, Thomas J. Balcerski argues that the personal and the political are inextricable in Buchanan’s biography, while the contributors to a new edited collection, The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era, have mixed opinions about the significance of personality within politics. Both books promise in their titles to situate Buchanan within a broader cast of characters; however, Buchanan hogs the limelight, whether because the political sig- nificance of his (terrible) presidential administration overshadows King’s and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of the Civil War Era University of North Carolina Press

Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King by Thomas J. Balcerski, and: The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era ed. by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller and John W. Quist (review)

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The Journal of the Civil War Era , Volume 11 (1) – Feb 24, 2021
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Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King. By Thomas J. Balcerski. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. 337. Cloth, $34.95.) The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era. Edited by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller, and John W. Quist. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2019. Pp. 279. Cloth, $47.50.) James Buchanan is having a moment. As current events threaten to dis- place him from his habitual ranking as the worst-ever president, scholars are paying renewed attention to his political career and to his personal life. In Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King, Thomas J. Balcerski argues that the personal and the political are inextricable in Buchanan’s biography, while the contributors to a new edited collection, The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era, have mixed opinions about the significance of personality within politics. Both books promise in their titles to situate Buchanan within a broader cast of characters; however, Buchanan hogs the limelight, whether because the political sig- nificance of his (terrible) presidential administration overshadows King’s and

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