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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.
This title 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. The chain of political developments is reconstructed for the reader.
The political home of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Horace Greeley, and the young Abraham Lincoln, the American Whig Party was involved at every level of American politics--local, state, and federal--in...