The rise and fall of the American Whig Party
Subtitle: Jacksonian politics and the onset of the Civil War
By: Michael F. Holt.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1248
Subjects: Whig Party (U.S.) -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [1181]-1201) and index.