The Political Culture of the American Whigs
, by Howe, Daniel WalkerNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780226354798 | 0226354792
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/1984
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.