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Article: Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century.(Review)
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- September 22, 2000
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Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Jean H. Baker. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1998. Pp. 367. $32.50.)
With two quantitative explorations of Maryland history behind her, Jean H. Baker was well-known as a "card-carrying practitioner of the new political history" in 1983, when Affairs of Party first appeared (3). "Utterly daring" as Richard P. McCormick said, the book marked a new departure in political history, employing a cultural approach gleaned from political scientists like Sidney Verba and anthropologists like Clifford Geertz to examine the mid-nineteenth-century Democratic Party. Borrowing ...