Stephen W. Campbell is a lecturer in the History Department at Cal Poly Pomona.
This welcome and highly readable book breathes new fire into
Jackson's dramatic Bank War of the 1830s. It successfully links
this epoch-turning event with a modern awareness of the power of
government institutions, the functioning of the press, and a
measured awareness of how the nation's financial and economic
system actually worked. Through the words and actions of key
players, notably Nicholas Biddle and Amos Kendall, it demonstrates
that the key disputes were not over the powers of ‘the state' but
whom should benefit from their exercise."" - Donald Ratcliffe,
author of The One-Party Presidential Contest: Adams, Jackson, and
1824's Five-Horse Race
""A fresh assessment of Andrew Jackson's famous Bank War has been
long overdue. Deftly interweaving the threads of party politics,
finance, journalism, and communications, Stephen Campbell's The
Bank War and the Partisan Press offers a revealing new take on this
pivotal yet dimly understood episode. Observers of American
government and banking, and of the interconnections between the
two, will find this book essential reading."" - Daniel Feller,
professor of history and director of The Papers of Andrew Jackson,
University of Tennessee
""Campbell breathes new life into the history of the Bank War by
examining how the burgeoning partisan press, the US Postal Service,
and the wider network of internal improvements nationalized this
conflict. With this new spin on an old topic, the battle between
Nicholas Biddle and Andrew Jackson over the fate of the Bank of the
United States offers much insight into how critical American
institutions worked in the 1830s and how they led to the formation
of a new political order."" - Sean Patrick Adams, professor of
history, University of Florida
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