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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... become , at age twenty - eight , the leading spokesman for the Bluegrass Republicanism he had once battled so hard . Sent to Washington as a senator in 1805 , he announced his candidacy for the House of Representatives six years later ...
... become , at age twenty - eight , the leading spokesman for the Bluegrass Republicanism he had once battled so hard . Sent to Washington as a senator in 1805 , he announced his candidacy for the House of Representatives six years later ...
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... become " king " -the most valuable staple commodity in the Atlantic world . The end of the war with Britain and the reopening of the cotton trade with the Lancashire mills stimulated the American cotton boom , and with it the spread of ...
... become " king " -the most valuable staple commodity in the Atlantic world . The end of the war with Britain and the reopening of the cotton trade with the Lancashire mills stimulated the American cotton boom , and with it the spread of ...
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... become a variant of democratic politics just as compelling to its adherents as Jacksonianism had become to Demo- crats . But that evolution occurred alongside other dramatic develop- ments in the mid - 1830s involving radical movements ...
... become a variant of democratic politics just as compelling to its adherents as Jacksonianism had become to Demo- crats . But that evolution occurred alongside other dramatic develop- ments in the mid - 1830s involving radical movements ...
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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