| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.2

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Book Review

Congress and the Emergence of Sectionalism: From the Missouri Compromise to the Age of Jackson. Ed. by Paul Finkelman and Donald R. Kennon. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. x, 293 pp. $46.95, ISBN 978-0-8214-1783-6.)

This collection of nine essays originated at two conferences sponsored by the United States Capitol Historical Society. It reflects that organization's focus on American political history, especially at the national level, and it inaugurates the series, Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877, which will trace the origin and evolution of the impulses that led to the breakdown of national consensus followed by secession and civil war. The themes of the book are recorded in its title, and its substance explores some familiar areas of early national politics. It is not intended to be "a summary of the period" (p. 3). In the first of the book's two parts, "Sectionalism," the authors discuss situations in which sectional impulses were aroused and became part of the nation's political dialogue. In the second, "Congress in the Age of Jackson," the focus is on Andrew Jackson as a politician, "a new kind of president" (p. 10), and an activist policy maker (in each of those guises he was entwined with challenges from southerners, as well as others).

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