The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War
- List Price: $55.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish date: 01/01/1999
In Michael Holt's hands, the history of the Whig Party becomes a political history of the United States during the tumultuous Antebellum period. He offers a panoramic account of a time when a welter of parties (Whig, Democratic, Anti-Mason, Know Nothing, Free Soil, Republican) and many extraordinary political statesmen (including Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, and Martin Van Buren) struggled to control the national agenda as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events rocked the country, including the Panic of 1837, the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Holt captures all of this as he shows that, amid this contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, repeatedly trying to find a compromise position. Indeed, the Whig Party emerges as the nation's last hope to prevent secession and civil war.
The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party is a magisterial book, one that has already been hailed as a major work ofhistory.
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