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"Let A Common Interest Bind Us Together": Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775-1840.(Book review)

"Let A Common Interest Bind Us Together": Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775-1840. By Albrecht Koschnik. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. Pp. 384. Cloth, $45.00.)

In 1840, Martin Van Buren charged that the nation's incorporated voluntary associations, like so many of its business corporations, were agents of aristocracy. By some mysterious "law of their nature," these organizations seemed always to resist the will of the people. (1) Van Buren's tone reflected some befuddlement, but this mastermind of democratic party organization did not slow down to consider the reasons why literary and benevolent societies were so ...

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