The political culture of the American Whigs

The political culture of the American Whigs

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1979.

vii, 404 p. ; 24 cm.

324.2732 H855 1979

(OCoLC)04957290

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-381) and index.
Contents: The Whigs and their age -- The language and values of the Whigs -- John Quincy Adams, nonpartisan politician -- The Whig interpretation of history -- The entrepreneurial ethos -- Henry Clay, ideologue of the center -- The evangelicals -- The modernizers -- Whig conservatism -- Alexander Stephens and the failure of southern Whiggery -- Abraham Lincoln and the transformation of northern Whiggery.
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