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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Page 43
... matter how close it had been , by pointing to the very document , the Constitution , that the Federalists had charged he wished to undermine . There was no reason to assume , less than three weeks after the electoral fracas had ended ...
... matter how close it had been , by pointing to the very document , the Constitution , that the Federalists had charged he wished to undermine . There was no reason to assume , less than three weeks after the electoral fracas had ended ...
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... matters , the questions arose primarily as a matter of privilege . Should unelected private interests , well connected to gov- ernment , be permitted to control , to their own benefit , the economic destiny of the entire nation through ...
... matters , the questions arose primarily as a matter of privilege . Should unelected private interests , well connected to gov- ernment , be permitted to control , to their own benefit , the economic destiny of the entire nation through ...
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... matter up to Congress . But Secretary McLane overplayed his hand by calling explicitly in his annual report for rechartering the BUS . For this and other reasons , McLane's influence with Jackson on the bank declined . Compromise over ...
... matter up to Congress . But Secretary McLane overplayed his hand by calling explicitly in his annual report for rechartering the BUS . For this and other reasons , McLane's influence with Jackson on the bank declined . Compromise over ...
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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