Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics
A Nonfiction, Presidents, History book. Finally found a readable biography about MVB that a layman can follow. He was responsible for developing the...
Martin Van Buren was a one-term president whose public life has long been overshadowed by the more fiery personalities of his day--Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. Nevertheless, Van Buren was a transforming political figure in American history, one of the first of the new republic's professional politicians. In the early part of the nineteenth century, America was skeptical of popular politics, distrustful of political parties, and disdainful of political management. However, as prominent historian Joel H. Silbey demonstrates, Martin Van Buren took the lead among his contemporaries in remolding the old political order as he captured the New York state governorship,...
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I should have realized when selecting this particular book the mention in someone's review that only one chapter was dedicated to Van Buren's Presidency. Let this be a warning to anyone interested in learning about his accomplishments and failures that this is fairly skewed toward the impact he had on others; his political views; and... It took me 11 months to get through this book! MVB lived an interesting life, but Silbey writes in a more academic style than, say, Wood, McCullough, or Howe. A few things that stood out to be about MVB:1. He was a crafty politician. "He rode toward his object with muffled oars." He was accused of noncommitalism at times (48, 55). He... Finally found a readable biography about MVB that a layman can follow. He was responsible for developing the modern day strategies of political parties and emphasizing the importance of party allegiance.
