The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1: 1828?1854 (The John Harvard Library)

Joel H. Sibley (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0674026454 / ISBN 13: 9780674026452

Editore: Harvard University Press August 1999, 1999

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• Titolo: The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1: 1828?1854 (The John Harvard Library)
• Editore: Harvard University Press August 1999
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674026454
• ISBN 13: 9780674026452
• Rilegatura: Paper Back
• Condizione: Fine
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The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. Political parties mapped the landscape of electoral and ideological warfare, constructing images of themselves and of their adversaries that resonate and echo the basic characteristics of America’s then reigning sets of ideas. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today’s party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large. Andrew Jackson’s Democrats, Millard Fillmore’s Whigs, Abraham Lincoln’s Republicans, and other, lesser-known parties are represented here. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values. Broad in scope, widely circulated, catalysts for heated debate over the decades, these pamphlets are important documents in the history of American politics.

In an excellent Introduction, Silbey teases out and elucidates the themes each party stressed and took as its own in its fight for the soul of the nation.

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The 19th century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey attempts to capture the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike the party platforms of the late-1990s, these pamplets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large. Andrew Jackson's Democrats, Millard Filmore's Whigs, Abraham Lincoln's Republicans, and other, lesser-known parties are represented here. The pamphlets demonstrate for 50 years political parties were surrogates for American demands and values.