The rise and fall of the American Whig Party

The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was represented at every level of American politics - local, state, and federal - in the years before the Civil War, and controlled the White House for eight of the twenty-two years that it existed. Now, in The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party, Michael Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written - a monumental history covering in rich detail the American political landscape from the Age of Jackson to impending disunion.

First sentence: "THE WHIGS LOOK FORWARD to the approaching contest with all the confident ardor of men who are conscious of the justness of their cause-and in its righteousness read their claim to certain success."

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

1

Pages

1268

ISBN

9780195161045

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