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Leonard, The Invention of Party Politics in Jacksonian Illinois (2002); Marc Kruman, Parties and Politics in North Carolina (1983); Donald Ratcliffe, The Politics of Long Division: The Birth of the Second Party System in Ohio (2000); Mills Thornton, Politics and Power in a Slave Society: Alabama, 1800–1860 (1978); and Harry Watson, Jacksonian Politics and Community Conflict: Cumberland County, North Carolina (1981).
    Other insightful works on political ideas and behavior include Marvin Meyers, The Jacksonian Persuasion (1960); Robert Kelley, The Cultural Pattern in American Politics (1979); Michael Heale, The Presidential Quest, 1787–1852 (1982); Richard P. McCormick, The Presidential Game (1982); Robert Swierenga, “Ethnoreligious Political Behavior in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” in Religion and American Politics , ed. Mark Noll (1990); Joel Silbey, The American Political Nation, 1838–1893 (1991); Michael Holt, Political Parties and American Political Development (1992); David Greenstone, The Lincoln Persuasion (1993); and Mark Neely, American Political Culture in the Civil War Era (2005). David Currie, The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829–1861 (2005) is quirky but interesting.
    Robert Remini’s three-volume biography of Jackson is laudatory and thorough: Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821 (1977); Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822–1832 (1981); Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845 (1984). There is still much useful material in James Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson , 3 vols. (1861). Two studies of Old Hickory’s personality are James C. Curtis, Andrew Jackson and the Search for Vindication (1976) and Andrew Burstein, The Passions of Andrew Jackson (2003). For delightful anecdotes, read Marquis James, Andrew Jackson (1937). Richard Hofstadter’s classic essay on Jackson appears in The American Political Tradition (1948).
    Samuel Flagg Bemis’s two-volume biography of John Quincy Adams is an enduring masterpiece: John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy (1949); John Quincy Adams and the Union (1956). Other treatments include Paul Nagel, John Quincy Adams (1997); Lynn Parsons, John Quincy Adams (1998); and Leonard Richards’s negative assessment of Congressman John Quincy Adams (1986). Robert Remini, Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union (1991) is thorough and workmanlike; more sympathetic are Maurice Baxter, Henry Clay and the American System (1995) and Clement Eaton, Henry Clay and the Art of American Politics (1957). Biographies of Daniel Webster include those by Robert Remini (1997) and Irving Bartlett (1978), as well as Maurice Baxter, One and Inseparable (1984). See also Merrill Peterson, The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun (1987). Charles Wiltse, John C. Calhoun , 3 vols. (1944–51) has become dated. John Niven, John C. Calhoun and the Price of Union (1988) is sound. See also Gerald M. Capers, John C. Calhoun: Opportunist (1960) and Irving Bartlett, John C. Calhoun (1993).
    The young Abraham Lincoln figures in the history of these years as state legislator and member of Congress. Of the vast literature on him, the books most useful to me were Richard Carwardine, Lincoln (2003); Allen Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln, Redeemer President (1999); David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (1995); Gabor Boritt, Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream (1978); and Reinhard Luthin, The Real Abraham Lincoln (1960).
    Valuable biographies of other leading political figures include Charles Sellers, JamesK. Polk, 2 vols. (1957–66); Glyndon Van Deusen, William Henry Seward (1967); Ralph Ketcham, James Madison (1971); Harry Ammon, James Monroe (1971); Robert Dawidoff, The Education of John Randolph (1979); John Niven, Martin Van Buren and the Romantic Age of American Politics (1983); Donald Cole, Martin Van Buren and the American Political System (1984); John Eisenhower, Agent of Destiny, Winfield