Affairs of office: The executive departments, the election of 1828, and the making of the democratic party

The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 50-84

  John, Richard R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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