[Free Registration/Login Required] Author and professor, Michael F. Holt, presents an overview of his book, "The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party." This party lasted roughly twenty years in the United States, but in some way it paved the way to the Republican party which emerged in 1854. [42:57]

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