A City in the Republic : Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics
by: Bridges, Amy

Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 210 pages. Provides an account of politics in New York City between the election of Andrew Jackson and the outbreak of the Civil War. Parts of this story are familiar: the Workingmen's Parties and the "Jacksonian revolution," the "ferment of reform" of the 1840s, mass immigration and the Know-Nothing movement, the collapse of the second American party system and the birth of the Republican Party. As in cities and states across the union, local politics in New York bore the imprint of national events. At the same time, New York and other antebellum cities witnessed a distinctively urban political reordering that involved changes in party, government, and ideology. Some pencil marking to about 30 pages at front. Name on front fly leaf.