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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... slavery and those that did not had been equal , leaving the balance of slave and free states nationwide , and thus ... pro - slavery senators . By admitting neighboring Missouri as a slave state , the pro - slavery bloc in the Senate ...
... slavery and those that did not had been equal , leaving the balance of slave and free states nationwide , and thus ... pro - slavery senators . By admitting neighboring Missouri as a slave state , the pro - slavery bloc in the Senate ...
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... pro - slavery or pro - southern party fundamentally distorts his motives and his conception of poli- tics . There was a rising pro - slavery impulse in the South , dating back to the Missouri crisis , and Van Buren certainly wished to ...
... pro - slavery or pro - southern party fundamentally distorts his motives and his conception of poli- tics . There was a rising pro - slavery impulse in the South , dating back to the Missouri crisis , and Van Buren certainly wished to ...
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... pro - slavery laws . Pierce's fecklessness contributed to a crisis of political legitimacy . Free - staters - who , by the fall of 1855 , represented a majority of set- tlers flaunted the legislature's laws and freely accepted crates of ...
... pro - slavery laws . Pierce's fecklessness contributed to a crisis of political legitimacy . Free - staters - who , by the fall of 1855 , represented a majority of set- tlers flaunted the legislature's laws and freely accepted crates of ...
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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