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The rise of American democracy, Jefferson to Lincoln, Sean Wilentz

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The rise of American democracy

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Sean Wilentz

Jefferson to Lincoln

The Rise of American Democracy, acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War

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 Republican has degenerated into a democracy" -- The politics of hard times -- Whigs, democrats, and democracy -- III: Slavery and the crisis of American democracy -- Whig debate, 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