Partisan Politics and the Public Sphere: The Civil War North.

Presents a case study on the relationship between a public sphere and partisan electoral politics based on the civil war in the U.S. Complexity of the relationship between partisanship and the public sphere in the northern U.S.; Importance of antipartyism; Examination of the political papers written by businessman James Batterson on the impact of the Civil War on political mobilization in the U.S.