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The political culture of the American Whigs
The political culture of the American Whigs Author:Daniel Walker Howe 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 successo... more »rs. He relates this culture to both the country's economic conditions and its ethnoreligious composition.« less