# The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth Century America

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- Authors: [Alexander Saxton](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-saxton)
- Publisher: verso_books
- ISBN: 978-18-5984-467-0
- Pages: 416
- Published: 2003-07-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In this acclaimed historical study, Alexander Saxton establishes the centrality of white racism to American politics and culture. Examining images of race at a popular level – from blackface minstrelsy to the construction of the Western hero, from grassroots political culture to dime novels – as well as the philosophical constructions of the political elite, it is a powerful and comprehensive account of the ideological forces at work in the formation of modern America.