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Rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln / Sean Wilentz.
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Wilentz, Sean
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English
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New York : W.W. Norton, 2006.
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xxiii, 1044 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm cm
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E302.1 .W55 2006
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Presidents
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United States
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History
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18th century
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Presidents
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Politicians
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United States
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History
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18th century
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Politicians
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United States
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History
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19th century
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Democracy
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United States
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History
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18th century
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Democracy
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United States
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History
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19th century
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United States
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Politics and government
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1783-1865
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Summary note
Political historian Wilentz traces an arc from the earliest days of the Republic to the opening shots of the Civil War, showing how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy. He brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians and Federalists clashed over the role of ordinary citizens in government of, by, and for the people. The triumph of Andrew Jackson soon defined this role on the national level, while city democrats, Anti-Masons, fugitive slaves, and a host of others hewed their own local definitions. In these definitions Wilentz recovers the beginnings of a discontent--two starkly opposed democracies, one in the North and another in the South--and the wary balance that lasted until the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked its bloody resolution.--From publisher description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. The crisis of the new order.
American democracy in a revolutionary age
The Republican interest and the self-created democracy
The making of Jeffersonian democracy
Jefferson's two presidencies
Nationalism and the War of 1812
II. Democracy ascendant.
The era of bad feelings
Slavery, compromise, and democratic politics
The politics of moral improvement
The aristocracy and democracy of America
The Jackson era: uneasy beginnings
Radical democracies
1832: Jackson's crucial year
Banks, abolitionists, and the equal rights democracy
"The republic has degenerated into a democracy"
The politics of hard times
Whigs, Democrats, and democracy
III. Slavery and the crisis of American democracy.
Whig debacle, Democratic confusion
Antislavery, annexation, and the advent of young Hickory
The bitter fruits of Manifest Destiny
War, slavery, and the American 1848
Political truce, uneasy consequences
The truce collapses
A nightmare broods over society
The faith that right makes might
The Iliad of all our woes.
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ISBN
9780393329216
0393329216
0393058204
9780393058208
OCLC
76910267
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