The Political Culture of the American Whigs
- ISBN-10
- 0226354792
- ISBN-13
- 9780226354798
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 404
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1979
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Author
- Daniel Walker Howe
Description
Howe studies the American Whigs with the thoroughness so often devoted their party rivals, the Jacksonian Democrats. He shows that the Whigs were not just a temporary coalition of politicians but spokesmen for a heritage of political culture received from Anglo-American tradition and passed on, with adaptations, to the Whigs' Republican successors. He relates this culture to both the country's economic conditions and its ethnoreligious composition.
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