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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

  • Authors: Sean Wilentz - Sean - Wilentz - Wilentz Sean
  • ISBN 10: 0393058204
  • ISBN 13: 9780393058208
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Release: October 17, 2005
  • Format: Hardcover (1044 pages)
  • List Price: $35.00
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    List Price: $35.00

    Tags: History, Americas, United States,

    Book Description:
    A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy.In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz 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 discontenttwo starkly opposed democracies, one in the North and another in the Southand the wary balance that lasted until the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked its bloody resolution. 75 illustrations.

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