By Joel H. Silbey
The 19th century used to be the heyday of livid competition among American political events, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of these battles in a consultant sampling of celebration pamphlets. Political events mapped the panorama of electoral and ideological war, developing pictures of themselves and in their adversaries that resonate and echo the fundamental features of America's then reigning units of principles. the character of political controversy, in addition to the substance of politics, is embedded in those social gathering records which either united and divided american citizens. in contrast to modern day social gathering systems, those pamphlets explicated actual concerns and gave perception into the society at huge. Andrew Jackson's Democrats, Millard Fillmore's Whigs, Abraham Lincoln's Republicans, and different, lesser-known events are represented right here. The pamphlets reveal how, for this fifty-year interval, political events have been surrogates for American calls for and values. huge in scope, generally circulated, catalysts for heated debate over the many years, those pamphlets are very important records within the historical past of yank politics.
In a good creation, Silbey teases out and elucidates the subjects every one occasion under pressure and took as its personal in its struggle for the soul of the nation.
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