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John J. Duffy and H. Nicholas Muller, III. An Anxious Democracy: Aspects of the 1830s. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.172 + xiii pp. David G. Pugh. Sons of Liberty: The Masculine Mind in Nineteenth-Century America. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.186 + xxii pp. J.C.A. Stagg. Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy and Warfare in the Early Republic, 1783-1830. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. 538 + xviii pp. William Preston Vaughn. The Antimasonic Party in the United States, 1826-1843. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1983.244 + x pp. Major L. Wilson. The Presidency of Martin Van Buren. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1984.252 + xiii pp. These books are an odd lot. One deals with a war, another with a minor political party, still another with attitudes about sexuality, a fourth with a presidency, and the fifth with something as indefinite as "aspects of the 1830s." Yet beneath this apparent disharmony runs a surprisingly consistent set of concerns, for, in one way or another, these are all books about politics. More specifically, they deal with changes that occurred when the United States moved from its first to second party systems, a time when the Republican and Federalist parties of the founders were superseded by the Democratic and Whig parties of Andrew Jackson and his contemporaries

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