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This digital document is an article from Middle Ages Reference Library, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 1979 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Middle Ages Reference Library explores the complex period of the Middle Ages, covering the different civilizations and peoples of Medieval times. It also includes biographical essays on significant individuals from the period and an insightful collection of full or excerpted texts from the era. ... Read more

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In this pathbreaking book Alan Tully offers an unprecedented comparative study of colonial political life and a rethinking of the foundations of American political culture. Tully chooses for his comparison the two colonies that arguably had the most profound impact on American political history--New York and Pennsylvania, the rich and varied colonies at the geographical and ideological center of British colonial America.

Fundamental to the book is Tully's argument that out of Anglo-American influences and the cumulative character of each colonial experience, New York and Pennsylvania developed their own distinctive but complementary characteristics. In making this case Tully enters--from a new perspective--the prominent argument between the "classical republican" and "liberal" views of early American public thought. He contends that the radical Whig element of classical republicanism was far less influential than historians have believed and that the political experience of New York and Pennsylvania led to their role as innovators of liberal political concepts and discourse. In a conclusion that pursues his insights into the revolutionary and early republican years, Tully underlines a paradox in American political development: not only were the pathbreaking liberal politicians of New York and Pennsylvania the least inclined towards revolutionary fervor, but their political language and concepts--integral to an emerging liberal democratic order--were rooted in oligarchical political practice.

"A momentous contribution to the burgeoning literature on the middle Atlantic region, and to the vexed question of whether it constitutes a coherent cultural configuration. Tully argues persuasively that it does, and his arguments will have to be reckoned with like few that have gone before, even as he develops an array of differences between the two colonies more subtle and penetrating than any of his predecessors has ever put forth."--Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania.

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An excessively florid and partisan account of Seymour's life
Though his name is largely forgotten today, in his time Horatio Seymour was one of the dominant political figures in the American landscape.This is all the more remarkable given his political career.Born in upstate New York, Seymour enjoyed a rapid rise in politics, serving in the state legislature and as mayor of Utica before winning a term as governor of the state in 1852.During the Civil War, he returned to the governor's office for two tumultuous years, during which he established himself as a prominent critic of many of Abraham Lincoln's policies.Despite his defeat for reelection, Seymour remained a prominent figure and reluctantly accepted the Democratic Party's nomination as president in 1868, only to be defeated by Ulysses S. Grant later that year.

Such a figure deserves a critical study that examines Seymour's life and career so as to understand how he came to play such a prominent role in American history.Unfortunately, Stewart Mitchell's biography is not that study.Despite the considerable amount of research that the author put into it, the book suffers from three major flaws.The first and most glaring is its bias.It becomes readily apparent from the book's first pages that Mitchell is an ardent fan of his subject.While this in itself may not have been a factor against him, he is unable or unwilling to prevent it form coloring his analysis of his subject.Often the book seems less a biography than a brief for the defense, an effort to redeem him from the many attacks he (like many politicians) suffered throughout his career.

As part of that effort, Mitchell feels obligated to revisit the political environment of Seymour's career.While context is necessary for any good biography, Mitchell errs too far in the direction of thoroughness here.At times the book is less a biography of Seymour than a rehashing of antebellum New York politics, as Mitchell's subject disappears for pages while the author details convoluted political struggles in which his subject's involvement was peripheral at best.All of this is recounted in writing which aspires to be soaring and poetic but comes across as excessively florid.

Dated and marred by bias, Mitchell's biography is nonetheless the best study of Seymour's life and career.This in the end is less a testament to Mitchell's achievement than proof that a newer and more critical examination of this figure is needed.Until then, readers seeking to learn more about Seymour and to better understand how he came to play such a prominent role in 19th century American politics will have little choice but to wade through the hagiographic presentation and purple prose of this book, which succeeds primarily in demonstrating that Seymour deserves better treatment than he received. ... Read more

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Sponsored by the St. Lawrence County Historical Association and Franklin County Historical and Museum Society. Includes three loose maps. ... Read more