The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America

by Stephen Campbell

Book Overview

President Andrew Jackson's conflict with the Second Bank of the United States was one of the most consequential political struggles in the early nineteenth century. A fight over the bank's reauthorization, the Bank War, provoked fundamental disagreements over the role of money in politics, competing constitutional interpretations, equal opportunity in the face of a state-sanctioned monopoly, and the importance of financial regulation--all of which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700634185
• ISBN13: 9780700634187
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"