To Govern the Devil in Hell by Pearl T. Ponce

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Ultimately, this book addresses why Presidents Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan failed to act, what hindered Congress from stepping into the void, and why and how the lack of effective governance harmed Kansas and later the United States. To Govern the Devil in Hell by Pearl Ponce is available in these libraries Soon after, a shadow government was created which further impeded local management of territorial challenges. 245: 1: 0 a To Govern the Devil in Hell. From the first elections in late 1854 and early 1855, local government was tarnished with cries of illegitimacy that territorial officials could not ameliorate. To Govern the Devil in Hell : Political Crisis of Territorial Kansas. To Govern the Devil in Hell uses the prism of governance to investigate what went wrong in territorial Kansas. In addition, the book also sheds light on the nature of democracy, the challenges of implanting it in distant environs, the necessity of cooperation at the various levels of government, and the value of strong leadership. This question is fundamentally about governance-its existence, exercise, limits, and continuance-and its study has ramifications for understanding both Kansas events and why the American experiment in government failed in 1861. Although ample attention has been devoted to understanding why territorial violence broke out in Kansas in 1856, of equal concern but less illuminated is the question of why government, both local and national, allowed the violence to continue unstanched for so long. One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of Bleeding Kansas and the violence that preceded the American Civil War by five years. This Description may be from another edition of this product.

To Govern the Devil in Hell by Pearl T. Ponce