The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War
نویسندگان: Michael F. Holt
خلاصه: 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 the years before the Civil War, and controlled the White House for eight of the twenty-two years that it existed