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Covering in rich detail the American political landscape from the Age of Jackson to impending disunion, this book covers the history of the Whig Party and the ramifications on the United States during the tumultuous Antebellum period. The text 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, William Seward, Daniel Webster, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay) struggled to control the national agenda as the U.S. inched towards secession.
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Holt's magisterial study is a comprehensive study of the rise and fall of the Party ... The amount of research is impressive ... this is a great work of political history, which should do much to restore the reputation of the much-maligned Whigs. Journal of American Studies What is most impressive of all in Holt's study is his skillful placing of the Whig Party clearly within the context of its time. In other words, this is not only a study of a party, but American politics as a whole from the 1830s to the 1850s. Journal of American Studies Michael Holt's magnum opus ... is deeply rewarding: few historians have managed to combine so skillfully a full reading of manuscript sources with an insightful command of the voting returns, or integrated federal and state politics with such clarity and coherence ... a masterwork that underlines the importance of contingency and leadership decisions in determining the fate of a mass political party. American 19th Century History Its exhaustive treatment will be a God-send for students of American history and for those interested in the break-up of the United States ... It is a goldmine of information and informed analysis. Contemporary Review
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Michael F. Holt is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Virginia. A leading authority on nineteenth-century American politics, he has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and of the National Humanites Center, and in 1993-94, he was the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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- Publication date1999
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was involved 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 F. 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.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, William Seward, Daniel Webster, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay) 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 Nullification Controversy, 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 great hope to prevent secession and civil war.The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party is a magisterial work of history, one that has already been hailed by William Gienapp of Harvard as "one of the most important books on nineteenth-century politics ever written.". Seller Inventory # DADAX0195055446
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