![]() ![]() ![]() Whigs supported more government intervention to subsidize economically disadvantaged parts of the country, while Andrew Jackson’s democrats thought that such monetary distribution would inevitably favor people who already held power in the area and so should be limited. Whigs believed in popular demonstrations and other methods of governing that involved input from average people, as well as laws and regulations designed to protect common people against government and corporate exploitation. By contrast, Howe presents the Whig party as the true embodiment of America’s future. ![]() However, Howe takes a different view, presenting Jackson and his followers as white supremacists, supporters of slavery, and exploiters of natural resources for personal gain. One of the leading government figures of the time period was Andrew Jackson, who, in previous books about the rise of the American state, was cast as a proponent of democracy and essential to the spread of the institution. The book begins with the War of 1812 and ends with the Mexican American war in 1848. What Hath God Wrought won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History and is included in the Oxford History of the United States series. ![]() A Rhodes professor, Howe previously worked at Oxford University and the University of California. The title of Daniel Walker Howe’s history book, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007), refers to the time period in which a second generation of leaders emerged in America to take over for the Founding Fathers. ![]()
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