The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to LincolnW.W. Norton & Company, 2009 - 496 pages Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. Ferocious clashes among the Founders over the role of ordinary citizens in a government of "we, the people" were eventually resolved in the triumph of Andrew Jackson. Thereafter, Sean Wilentz shows, a fateful division arose between two starkly opposed democracies--a division contained until the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked its bloody resolution. Winner of the Bancroft Award, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2005 and best book of New York magazine and The Economist. |
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... British sloop Little Belt off the Chesapeake coast in the spring of 1811 stimulated American outrage and overconfidence . By January 1812 , President Madison completely changed his mind about France presenting a greater threat to the ...
... British sloop Little Belt off the Chesapeake coast in the spring of 1811 stimulated American outrage and overconfidence . By January 1812 , President Madison completely changed his mind about France presenting a greater threat to the ...
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... British troops came to America . Between July and September , the British occupied coastal Maine , where many antiwar locals reportedly welcomed them with open arms . In July , forty - five hundred British veterans of the Napoleonic ...
... British troops came to America . Between July and September , the British occupied coastal Maine , where many antiwar locals reportedly welcomed them with open arms . In July , forty - five hundred British veterans of the Napoleonic ...
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... British had launched an enormous invasion from Jamaica aimed at New Orleans - sixty ships carrying more than ten thousand troops— and that he had been ordered to crush it . If the British could seize the port city , Jackson thought ...
... British had launched an enormous invasion from Jamaica aimed at New Orleans - sixty ships carrying more than ten thousand troops— and that he had been ordered to crush it . If the British could seize the port city , Jackson thought ...
Contents
American Democracy in a Revolutionary | 3 |
The Republican Interest and the SelfCreated Democracy | 17 |
The Making of Jeffersonian Democracy | 31 |
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