Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. "No party now but all for our country": Political Parties and Public Safety -- 2. "Blustering treason in every assembly": The Revolt against Politics in 1863 -- 3. "He must be entrenching": Political Parties and the Death of Strategy -- 4. "Odious to honourable men": The Press and Its Freedom in the Civil War -- 5. "Times of corruption and demoralization": The Futility of a Loyal Opposition -- 6. "Paroxysms of rage and fear": The Republican Party at War -- 7. The Civil War and the Two-Party System: A Reconsideration -- Notes -- Index.