The Political Culture of the American Whigs

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.

• | Author: Daniel Walker Howe
• | Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 15, 1984
• | Number of Pages: 414 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0226354792
• | ISBN-13: 9780226354798