The Political Culture of the American Whigs

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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 countrys economic conditions and its ethnoreligious composition.