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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Holt, Michael F. (Michael Fitzgibbon) Rise and fall of the American Whig Party. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607140359 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael F Holt |
| ISBN: | 0195055446 9780195055443 |
| OCLC Number: | 39354222 |
| Description: | xviii, 1248 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | "Not fitted to make converts" -- "To rescue the government and public liberty" -- "No opposition man can be elected President" -- "We have many recruits in our ranks from the pressure of the times" -- "Harrison and prosperity or Van Buren and ruin" -- "The Whig Party seems now totally broken up and dismembered" -- "The Whigs are in high spirits" -- "The present administration are your best recruiting officers" -- "The contest for President should be regarded as a contest of principles" -- "We must have the aid of gunpowder" -- "Stimulate every Whig to turn out" -- "Many discordant political interests to reconcile" -- "Patronage is a dangerous element of power" -- "The slavery excitement seems likely to obliterate party lines" -- "The long agony is over" -- "God save us from Whig vice presidents" -- "Fillmore is precisely the man for the occasion" -- "Webster is now engaged in strenuous efforts to secure the succession" -- "Scott & Scott alone is the man for the emergency" -- "Like pissing against the wind" -- "This Nebraska business will entirely denationalize the Whig Party" -- "The Whig Party, as a party, are entirely disbanded" -- "Confusion worse confounded" -- "Let then, the Whig Party pass" -- "The Whig Party is dead and buried". |
| Responsibility: | Michael F. Holt. |
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Abstract:
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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