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. The College Edition features a new preface and further reading lists for each volume. It eliminated the endnotes of the one-volume edition but preserves the entire text of the original."

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Format: Trade Paperback
Author: Wilentz, Sean
ISBN: 9780393930085
Condition: Used
Dimensions: 8.29 x 0.84
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Year: 2006

Language: English

The Rise of American Democracy: Slavery and the Crisis of American Democracy, 1840-1860

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