Martin Van Buren and the emergence of American popular politics
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield,
c2002.
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Series: | American profiles (Lanham, Md.)
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Table of Contents:
- The tavern keeper's son : the making of a politician, 1782-1812
- "The partisan leader," I : master of the state, 1812-1821
- The partisan leader," II : the senator from New York, 1821-1828
- The seats of the mighty, 1828-1832
- The democracy's heir apparent, 1832-1836
- At the summit : the eighth president of the United States, 1837-1841
- "The people could not be rallied for Van Buren"
- The partisan leader at bay, 1841-1847
- "The most fallen man I have ever known" : the party leader becomes a political rebel
- for a time, 1848-1852
- Political afterlife, 1852-1862
- "The honors of their statesman".