num_pages: 416
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Political Culture of the American Whigs
titlecomplete: The Political Culture of the American Whigs
genres: History, Americana, American History, Politics, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 76
publisher: University of Chicago Press