Description
Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the upward push of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual adjustments that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He supplies a breathtaking chronicle of New York Town’s labor strife, social actions, and political turmoil within the eras of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Two decades after its initial publication, Wilentz has added a brand new preface that takes stock of his own thinking, then and now, about New York Town and the upward push of the American working magnificence.