Download or read book The Ruling Race written by James Oakes and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1982 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shattering the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy, historian James Oakes reveals them as having been just as entrepreneurial as their northern counterparts, committed to free-market commercialism and political democracy for white males. Oakes's pathbreaking analysis shows the Civil War as not a conflict of separate ideologies, but instead the split of a single system. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.