An Exemplary Whig: Edward Kent and the Whig Disposition in American Politics and Law

An Exemplary Whig: Edward Kent and the Whig Disposition in American Politics and Law
ISBN-10
0739172735
ISBN-13
9780739172735
Category
History
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2012-07-06
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Author
David M. Gold

Description

An Exemplary Whig examines the life and thought of Edward Kent, a nineteenth-century state political leader and judge and Maine's quintessential Whig. It reveals Kent's characteristically conservative Whig aversion toward disorder and his deep respect for law, existing institutions, and the wisdom of experience. David Gold shows how Kent carried the Whig persuasion into the Republican ascendancy and the beginnings of the Gilded Age.

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