Rise Of Am Democracy Br Pa

by Wilentz,Sean

• ISBN13: 9780393931112
• ISBN10: 0393931110
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-14
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Winner of the Bancroft Award: "Monumental'¦a tour de force'¦awesome in its coverage of political events."'”Gordon Wood, New York Times Book Review 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 .

Author Biography

Sean Wilentz is George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

Maps	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
The Crisis of the New Order
American Democracy in a Revolutionary Age	p. 3
The Republican Interest and the Self-Created Democracy	p. 17
The Making of Jeffersonian Democracy	p. 31
Jefferson's Two Presidencies	p. 46
Nationalism and the War of 1812	p. 68
Democracy Ascendant
The Era of Bad Feelings	p. 93
Slavery, Compromise, and Democratic Politics	p. 114
The Politics of Moral Improvement	p. 136
The Aristocracy and Democracy of America	p. 150
The Jackson Era: Uneasy Beginnings	p. 166
Radical Democracies	p. 174
1832: Jackson's Crucial Year	p. 188
Banks, Abolitionists, and the Equal Rights Democracy	p. 207
"The Republic has degenerated into a Democracy"	p. 222
The Politics of Hard Times	p. 239
Whigs, Democrats, and Democracy	p. 253
Slavery and the Crisis of American Democracy
Whig Debacle, Democratic Confusion	p. 271
Antislavery, Annexation, and the Advent of Young Hickory	p. 288
The Bitter Fruits of Manifest Destiny	p. 306
War, Slavery, and the American 1848	p. 321
Political Truce, Uneasy Consequences	p. 341
The Truce Collapses	p. 363
A Nightmare Broods over Society	p. 391
The Faith That Right Makes Might	p. 421
The Iliad of All Our Woes	p. 436
Epilogue	p. 451
Index	p. 459
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