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The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War
Michael F. Holt
Hill and Wang, 2004
Excellent introduction to a misunderstood topic
+ A young Historians outlook...
+ Clarifies the reasons for the war
+ A Story of Politicians and the Affect of their Actions
+ partisan politics at its peak
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The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
Merrill D. Peterson
Oxford University Press, USA, 1988
Masterful history through the lives of 3 great men
+ Calhoun, Clay and Webster: The Triumvirate Standing Athwart Jackson
+ Great Scholarship and a wonderful story
+ The big three in antebellum America
+ Great is Great
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The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics
Don E. Fehrenbacher
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
An outstanding book
+ Superb book!!
+ A masterpiece of historical exposition
+ A Really Wonderful Read
+ Superb
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Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America (American Century Series)
Harry L. Watson
Hill and Wang, 1990
Very comprehensive
+ IN THE AGE OF JACKSON
+ Good overview of period and its implications for US history
+ AP US History Student
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Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union
Robert V. Remini
W. W. Norton & Company, 1993
An interesting account
+ Twice was Nice
+ One of the Best Books on Henry Clay
+ A delightful read!
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Political Crisis of the 1850s
Michael F. Holt
W. W. Norton & Company, 1983
Beyond rudimentary answers
+ Graduate Student Review
+ Overemphasis on political containment, but otherwise good
+ Right to secede or not?
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John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union: A Biography (Southern Biography)
John Niven
Louisiana State University Press, 1993
Scarlett O'Hara's Favorite Senator
In his opening remarks John Niven makes the promise that he would not undertake psychoanalysis of John C.Calhoun, Much to his credit, he is true to his word. What Niven has delivered is an eminently readable and straightforward account of South Carolina's greatest political figure. We forget all ...
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The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic
Jeffrey L. Pasley
University of Virginia Press, 2003
How newspaper editors created our political system
+ Early American politics brought to life
+ Fantastic new look at Revolutionary journalism
+ The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics
+ One of 2001's best nonfiction books
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The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860
Leonard Richards
Louisiana State University Press, 2000
Powerful, absorbing account of South's stranglehold
+ Superb
This is an extremely engrossing history of the (virtual) stranglehold the South maintained on the US government from the birth of America until the election of Abraham Lincoln. It is also on account of the efforts by post-war southern historians to cover up the central fact of slavery as the ...
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The Political Culture of the American Whigs
Daniel Walker Howe
University Of Chicago Press, 1984
Great Book on the Origins of the "Positive Liberal State"
+ Illuminating; 4.5 Stars Appropriate
+ Whiggery revealed (4 1/2 stars)
In this book, originally published in 1979, Danial Walker Howe seeks to understand the ideological origins and development of American Whigs, a political party that emerged in the 1830s but collapsed in the first part of the 1850s. Led by such enigmatic politicians as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, ...
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Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time
Robert Vincent Remini
W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
A must for those intersted in early American history
+ Webster as Patriot/Statesman and Ichabod
+ A Man to Know About
+ Daniel Webster was one complex dude
+ Black Dan and the Godlike Daniel
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The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
David M. Potter
Harper Perennial, 1977
A refreshing approach to the pre-Civil War era
+ Fantastic
+ The Decade That Led to Civil War
+ Amazing in scope
+ The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Masters and Statesmen: The Political Culture of American Slavery (New Studies in American Intellectual and ...
Kenneth S. Greenberg
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988
"Greenberg shows how planters and statesmen grappled with contradictory ideas and uses of power... His fresh insights on statesmanship, dueling, political parties and representation, the proslavery movement, and the origins and dynamics of Southern nationalism and secession give new vigor to these topics." -- Library Journal
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Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America (The Bedford Series in History ...
Harry L. Watson
Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998
Clear, concise explanation the Clay/Jackson power struggle
Today we know them as Old Hickory and the Great Compromiser. However, they called each other King Andrew the first and the Corrupt Bargainer. Jackson and Clay were the opposite poles of the axis of Antebellum politics. Each man carried an ideological dislike and often personal hatred of the other ...
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War With a New ...
Eric Foner
Oxford University Press, USA, 1995
Excellent background
+ Graduate Student Review
+ Oldie but Goodie
+ Early Republican Revolution
+ IN THE HEROIC AGE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
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