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Party Over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848

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Party Over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848 - Silbey, Joel H
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A leading political historian of antebellum America examines the hard-fought three-way presidential race of 1848. Reveals how Martin Van Buren and his Free Soil party challenged Whigs and Democrats by making slavery a key issue--representing a harbinger of the change that was to come even though they only garnered 10 percent of the vote.

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Party Over Section: The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848 2009, University Press of Kansas

ISBN-13: 9780700616404

Hardcover