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1847-52 United States Magazine, and Democratic Review, June 1847 & Aug-Sept 1852

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Original/Facsimile : Original
Special Attributes : Illustrated
Subject : History
Language : English
Topic : United States
Binding : Disbound

The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Washington, D.C., 1847-52, disbound, 5.5 x 8.5″, 12mo Poor condition/as is. Disbound: boards are missing and spine is lacking. Speckling to fore edges. Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. Bindings are heavily cracked. Illustrations throughout. Please see photos and ask any questions prior to purchase. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review was a periodical published from 1837 to 1859 by John L. O’Sullivan. Its motto, “The best government is that which governs least “, was famously paraphrased by Henry David Thoreau in “Resistance to Civil Government”, better known as Civil Disobedience , and is often erroneously attributed to Thomas Jefferson. The Democratic Review was a highly regarded journal meant to champion Jacksonian Democracy, a movement which had usually been disparaged in the more conservative North American Review . The magazine featured political essays, many of them penned by O’Sullivan himself, extolling the virtues of Jacksonian democracy and criticizing what Democrats regarded as the aristocratic pretensions of their opponents. The journal supported the losing effort of Martin Van Buren in the 1840 presidential election, and in the 1844 election, James K. Polk, the eventual winner. FORN-TUB-0059-BB-2409-JC1278

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