The Political Culture Of The American Whigs

"Of all the parties that have existed in the United States, the famous Whig party was the most feeble in ideas." Contents Acknowledgments Introduction One. The Whigs and Their Age Two. The Language and Values of the Whigs Three. John Quincy Adams, Nonpartisan Politician Four. The Whig Interpretation of History Five. The Entrepreneurial Ethos Six. Henry Clay, Ideologue of the Center Seven. The Evangelicals Eight. The Modernizers Nine. Whig Conservatism Ten. Alexander Stephens and the Failure of Southern Whiggery Eleven. Abraham Lincoln and the Transformation of Northern Whiggery Conclusion Notes Index