The rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln / Sean Wilentz

New York : Norton, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxiii, 1044 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Notes; First published as a Norton paperback, 2006. 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. Subjects; Presidents United States History 18th century. Presidents United States History 19th century. Politicians United States History 18th century. Politicians United States History 19th century. Democracy United States History 18th century. Democracy United States History 19th century. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. History. Illustrated.