Daniel Webster and Jacksonian Democracy

by Sydney Nathans and Professor Sydney Nathans

Book Overview

Originally published in 1973. Professor Nathans illuminates the changes wrought by Jacksonian democracy on the career of Daniel Webster, a major political figure, and on the destiny of a major political party, the Whigs. Daniel Webster was a creative anachronism in the Jacksonian era. His career illustrates the fate of a generation of American politicians, reared to rule in a traditional world of defined social classes where gentlemen led and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421430533
• ISBN13: 9781421430539
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"