The Rise of American Democracy – Jefferson to Lincoln - Softcover

Wilentz, Sean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393329216 ISBN 13: 9780393329216

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007

Synopsis

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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Review:

Remarkable . . . a book that befits its subject in artistry as well as scale.--Steven Hahn

A magisterial synthesis that deserves the attention of anyone interested in the American past.--Eric Foner

Confirms Sean Wilentz as the Richard Hofstadter of our day--the supreme political historian.--Franklin Foer

About the Author:

Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the Bancroft Prize-winning The Rise of American Democracy, Bob Dylan in America, and many other works. He is completing his next book, No Property in Man, on slavery, antislavery, and the Constitution, based on his Nathan I. Huggins Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2015.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0393329216
• ISBN 13: 9780393329216
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1104