Whitman, Shepherd Leonard2014-04-042014-04-0419291929b14775177https://hdl.handle.net/2144/8440This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston Universityen-USBased on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictionsThe rise and growth of the political parties in the United States as a means of organizing and expressing public opinionThesis/Dissertation