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Article: Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2004
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Martin Van Buren and the Emergence of American Popular Politics. By Joel H. Silbey. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. Pp. xiv, 235. $35.00.)
This brief biography is part of a series intended for the general reader. The text lacks documentation, and many aspects of Martin Van Buren's career are passed over lightly. Joel H. Silbey emphasizes that Van Buren was one of the first politicians of the early Republic to recognize the utility of political parties and the need for discipline to bring together an organized group to gain and perpetuate a set of political goals.
Van Buren rose from relatively humble circumstances to become the ...