| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 1044 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I : The crisis of the new order. American democracy in a revolutionary age ; The Republican interest and the self-created democracy ; The making of Jeffersonian democracy ; Jefferson's two presidencies ; Nationalism and the War of 1812 -- II : Democracy ascendant. The era of bad feelings ; Slavery, compromise, and democratic politics ; The politics of moral improvement ; The aristocracy and democracy of America ; The Jackson era: uneasy beginnings ; Radical democracies ; 1832: Jackson's crucial year ; Banks, abolitionists, and the equal rights democracy ; "The republic has degenerated into a democracy" ; The politics of hard times ; Whigs, Democrats, and democracy -- III : Slavery and the crisis of American democracy. Whig debacle, Democratic confusion ; Antislavery, annexation, and the advent of young Hickory ; The bitter fruits of Manifest Destiny ; War, slavery, and the American 1848 ; Political truce, uneasy consequences ; The truce collapses ; A nightmare broods over society ; The faith that right makes might ; The Iliad of all our woes. |
| Summary |
Political historian Wilentz traces an arc from the earliest days of the Republic to the opening shots of the Civil War, showing how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy. |
| Subject |
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1865.
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Presidents -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Presidents -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Politicians -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Politicians -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Democracy -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Democracy -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
0393058204 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
9780393058208 (hardcover) 53500 |
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