Nicholas Mosvick joins us to detail the life of Fernando Wood and how he was the mayor of New York who wished the state would have seceded during the Civil War. Wood was best known for being an ideologue rather than a political agitator.

Was Fernando Wood a Van Buren man or a Calhoun man? Did Fernando Wood represent a glorious American future? Was Wood sympathetic to the South?

Further Reading:

Fernando Wood: A Political Biography, written by Jerome Mushkat

Mayor Wood’s Recommendation of the Secession of New York City, speech by Fernando Wood

Related Content:

The Roots of Modern Libertarian Ideas, written by Brian Doherty

Tensions in Early American Political Thought, written by Joseph R. Stromberg

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