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Book Description: Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003. Softcover. Book Condition: New. Reprint Edition. 1298 pages. Softcover. New book. UNITED STATES HISTORY. Here, Michael F. Holt gives us the only comprehensive history of the Whigs ever written. He offers a panoramic account of the tumultuous antebellum period, a time when a flurry of parties and larger-than-life politicians--Andrew Jackson, John C. Calhoun, Martin Van Buren, and Henry Clay--struggled for control as the U.S. inched towards secession. It was an era when Americans were passionately involved in politics, when local concerns drove national policy, and when momentous political events--like the Annexation of Texas and the Kansas-Nebraska Act--rocked the country. Amid this contentious political activity, the Whig Party continuously strove to unite North and South, emerging as the nation's last great hope to prevent secession. "The Rise and Fall of the Whig Party is a magesterial work, one that cannot be neglected by nineteenth-century historians even if their particular emphasis is not political history. While it is intended to be the history of a political party, it has something worthwhile to say about almost every major issue in United States history from the nullification controversy of 1832 to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854."- Civil War History , March 2000 Includes an Index. (Key Words: American Whig Party, Michael F. Holt, United States History, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, Abraham Lincoln, John Younng, Wilmot Proviso, Thurlow Weed, Martin Van Buren, Robert Toombs, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Alexander H. Stephens, Slavery, William Henry Seward, Secession, Republican Party, James Knox Polk, Nathan K. Hall, Pennsylvania, Abolitionism, New York, Missouri Compromise, Mexican War, Willie P. Mangum, John McLean, Know Nothing Party, Andrew Jackson, William F. Johnston, Lewis D. Campbell, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Hunkers, Fugitive, Lewis Slave Act, Free Soilers, Millard Fillmore, Thomas Ewing, Stephen A. Douglas, Elections, Democratic Party, John J. Crittenden, Connecticut, Rufus Choate, Lewis Cass, John C. Calhoun, John M. Berrien, George E. Baker, John Quincy Adams). book. Bookseller Inventory # 72303X3

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Book Description: Oxford Univ Pr, 2003. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. 1296 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.75 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # 0195161041

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