THE RISE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Jefferson to Lincoln
Paperback
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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, historian 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.
| Copyright | 2005 |
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| Publisher | Norton |
| Pages | 1044 |
| Grade | 10 and up |
| ISBN | 9780393329216 |