Article: De Witt Clinton and the rise of the People's Men.

by Craig Hanyan and Mary Hanyan. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996. xii, 419 pp. $55.00.

The eminent historian George Dangerfield once commented that De Witt Clinton's politics "consisted chiefly in demanding a personal allegiance to Clinton, which he rewarded with patronage but not with courtesy." However waspish, Dangerfield's observation, Craig and Mary L. Hanyan concede, is not inaccurate. Yet in De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men the Hanyans add a new dimension to Clinton's politics if not to his personality. They focus their study on the rise of the reform-minded People's party and Clinton's relationship to it. Throughout, they ...

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