| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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"In the Habit of Acting Together": The Emergence of the Whig Party in Louisiana, 1828–1840. By Henry O. Robertson. (Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, 2007. xxiv, 163 pp. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 1-887366-73-3.)

Unlike most states in the Deep South, Louisiana witnessed a vibrant and competitive two-party system during the antebellum period. Henry O. Robertson attempts to explain why by examining the impact of ethnicity, economic issues, regionalism, and slavery on party development in the Bayou State during the administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Each of the three chapters focus on one of the state's three congressional districts. That method necessarily results in some repetition, not only in the discussion of state and national election campaigns but also in the treatment of issues such as constitutional reform and slave unrest. Two of the chapters were originally published as journal articles and are presented here with only slight revisions. The work should be viewed, therefore, as a collection of related essays rather than a unified monograph.

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