[PDF] The Barnburners eBook

Author : Stan M. Haynes
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0786490306

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For almost two centuries, Americans have relied upon political conventions to provide the nation with new leadership. The modern convention, a four-day, carefully choreographed, prime-time television event designed to portray the party and its candidate in the most favorable light, continues many of the traditions and rules developed during the first conventions in the mid-19th century. This study analyzes the birth of the convention process in the 1830s and follows its development over 40 years, chronicling each of the presidential elections between 1832 and 1872, the leading candidates, and an analysis of the key issues, and memorable speeches and events on the convention floor. Other topics include back-room deal making, "dark horse" candidacies, meeting halls, parades, rallies, and other accompanying hoopla. This volume reveals the origins of a quintessentially American spectacle and sheds new light on an understudied aspect of the nation's political past.

Author : Robert Walter Johannsen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 17,27 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252066351

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BIOG Johannsen's 1983 biography won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. Though most know Douglas for his famous debates with Abraham Lincoln, Johannsen reveals him to be one of the most powerful and formidable politicians of his time. This edition contains a new introduction.-

Author : Morris Robert Werner
Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 15,70 MB
Release : 1928
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN :

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Tammany Hall is the oldest and the most powerful institution of a political and sociological nature in America.

Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0307277704

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A sweeping history of the 1840s, Manifest Destinies captures the enormous sense of possibility that inspired America’s growth and shows how the acquisition of western territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep fault line that would bring war in the near future. Steven E. Woodworth gives us a portrait of America at its most vibrant and expansive. It was a decade in which the nation significantly enlarged its boundaries, taking Texas, New Mexico, California, and the Pacific Northwest; William Henry Harrison ran the first modern populist campaign, focusing on entertaining voters rather than on discussing issues; prospectors headed west to search for gold; Joseph Smith founded a new religion; railroads and telegraph lines connected the country’s disparate populations as never before. When the 1840s dawned, Americans were feeling optimistic about the future: the population was growing, economic conditions were improving, and peace had reigned for nearly thirty years. A hopeful nation looked to the West, where vast areas of unsettled land seemed to promise prosperity to anyone resourceful enough to take advantage. And yet political tensions roiled below the surface; as the country took on new lands, slavery emerged as an irreconcilable source of disagreement between North and South, and secession reared its head for the first time. Rich in detail and full of dramatic events and fascinating characters, Manifest Destinies is an absorbing and highly entertaining account of a crucial decade that forged a young nation’s character and destiny.

Author : Sidney Blumenthal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476777268

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Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.