Books written by Michael F. Holt

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  The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War

  Continuing to praise the Compromise a year after it passed, Cobb ran for governor against Charles J. McDonald, a Southern Rights Democrat, who defended the right while denying the necessity of secession, continued to pillory the ...

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  The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

  The slavery extension issue and its political ramifications throughout the four decades prior to the Civil War are treated in considerable detail and with astute analysis in Michael A. Morrison, Slavery and the American West: The ...

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  The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War

  Timberlake, Richard. ''The Specie Circular and Distribution of the Surplus.'' Journal of Political Economy, 68 (1960), 109–17. Timberlake, Richard. ''The Specie Circular and Sales of Public Lands: Bibliography 1197.

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  The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War

  This book chronologically tells the birth, life and death of the Whigs, a major American political party that was the country's last and best hope to avert secession.

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  Political Parties and American Political Development from the Age of Jackson to the Age of Lincoln

  For California , I have relied on conversations with my colleague Professor Charles W. McCurdy , who is writing a biography of Stephen J. Field , one of the leaders in forming California's Union party .

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  Franklin Pierce: The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857

  The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 ...

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  Franklin Pierce: The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857

  The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slavery Charming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 ...

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  The Election of 1860: "a Campaign Fraught with Consequences"

  The Election of 1860 by a preeminent scholar of American history disrupts the familiar narrative for this pivotal election with a clearer and more comprehensive account of how the election unfolded and what it was actually about.

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  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act: costs, benefits and business impacts

  This book takes a hard look at the costs, benefits and other impacts as well as at what influential and prominent financial, government and business leaders think about it now. * International in scope and content and including interviews ...

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  The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War

  How partisan politics lead to the Civil War What brought about the Civil War? Leading historian Michael F. Holt convincingly offers a disturbingly contemporary answer: partisan politics.

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  By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876

  By One Vote shows how this election triggered a Republican revival and established the GOP as the Democrats' major competitor.