Forging a Majority: The Formation of the Republican Party in Pittsburgh, 1848-1860

by Michael F. Holt

The book offers new insights and opens a mine of new information on a period still seen too commonly through the glasses of sectional propaganda."--American Historical Review

418 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Michael F. Holt is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He earned his B.A. from Princeton in 1962 and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1967.