The Age of Jackson

by Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M.

• ISBN13: 9780316773430
• ISBN10: 0316773433
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-11-28
• Publisher: INGRAM

Summary

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. won the Pulitzer Prize for The Age of Jackson. It is a triumph of historical scholarship, analysis, and interpretation and throws much new light on a host of Americans, well-known and less well-known, who come to life in remarkable portraits that are both brilliant and sensitive. We learn a good deal that is new about the Jacksonian era, its relation to the Jeffersonian age it succeeded and to the periods that have followed.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Prologue: 1829	p. 3
End of Arcadia	p. 8
Keepers of the Jeffersonian Conscience	p. 18
Background for Revolution	p. 30
The First Year	p. 45
The Men around the President	p. 57
Beginnings of the Bank War	p. 74
Veto	p. 88
Counterattack	p. 103
Hard Money	p. 115
Credo of the Workingmen	p. 132
Stirrings in the Bay State	p. 144
George Bancroft and Radicalism in Massachusetts	p. 159
Radicalism in New York	p. 177
Rise of the Locofocos	p. 190
The Pattern of Locofocoism	p. 201
The Third Term	p. 210
Panic	p. 217
Divorce of Bank and State	p. 227
The Southern Dilemma	p. 242
Radicalism at High Water	p. 250
The Whig Counterreformation	p. 267
1840	p. 283
Jacksonian Democracy as an Intellectual Movement	p. 306
Jacksonian Democracy and the Law	p. 322
Jacksonian Democracy and Industrialism	p. 334
Jacksonian Democracy and Religion	p. 350
Jacksonian Democracy and Utopia	p. 361
Jacksonian Democracy and Literature	p. 369
Tyler Too	p. 391
Minorities and Majorities	p. 401
Cloud on the Horizon	p. 422
Gathering of the Storm	p. 434
Free Soil	p. 450
The Storm Approaches	p. 469
"Our Federal Union ..."	p. 484
Traditions of Democracy	p. 505
Appendix	p. 525
Index	p. 529
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