| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Donald J. Ratcliffe. The Politics of Long Division: The Birth of the Second Party System in Ohio, 1818–1828. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2000. Pp. xvii, 455. $65.00.

The complexity of both national and state politics in the 1820s has never been more evident than in Donald J. Ratcliffe's study of Ohio in the years surrounding the rise to power of Andrew Jackson. Ratcliffe maintains that the decade has long been neglected by historians bent on describing the dramatic political changes of the 1830s. They have paid too much attention to the political tumult of the Bank War, the Nullification crisis, and the emergence of the Whig Party, with the result that they have misunderstood the previous decade. Ratcliffe makes a valiant effort to correct this distortion and successfully shows how, at least in Ohio, the 1820s were a significant bridge connecting the first party system of the pre-War of 1812 Jeffersonian era with the bitter struggles of the Jackson presidency and after. . . .

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