Bank War and the Partisan Press : Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the...

by Stephen Campbell

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Bank War and the Partisan Press : Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America, Hardcover by Campbell, Stephen W., ISBN 0700627448, ISBN-13 9780700627448, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US President Andrew Jackson’s conflict with the Second Bank of the United States was one of the most consequential political struggles in the early nineteenth century. A fight over the bank’s reauthorization, the Bank War, provoked fundamental disagreements over the role of money in politics, competing constitutional interpretations, equal opportunity in the face of a state-sanctioned monopoly, and the importance of financial regulation—all of which cemented emerging differences between Jacksonian Democrats and Whigs. As Stephen W. Campbell argues here, both sides in the Bank War engaged interregional communications networks funded by public and private money. The first reappraisal of this political turning point in US history in almost fifty years, The Bank War and the Partisan Press advances a new interpretation by focusing on the funding and dissemination of the party press. Drawing on insights from the fields of political history, the history of journalism, and financial history, The Bank War and the Partisan Press brings to light a revolving cast of newspaper editors, financiers, and postal workers who appropriated the financial resources of preexisting political institutions—and even created new ones—to enrich themselves and further their caree

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Year: 2019
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780700627448
• Condition: Good

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