The Political Culture of the American Whigs (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Howe, Daniel Walker
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	02/15/1984
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.