Martin Van Buren
Mushkat, Jerome / Rayback, Joseph In 1828, Martin Van Buren discontinued his profession as a lawyer to become a full-time politician, yet his formative years as an attorney provided the critical ideological basis for his later political success. Dynamic and evolving, Van Buren's ideology emerges in this study as a malleable body of thought exemplifying the complexities of republicanism itself.Drawing on extensive sources in legal history, this intellectual biography shows how ...