The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (Abridged College Edition)

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Winner of the Bancroft Award: “Monumental…a tour de force…awesome in its coverage of political events.”―Gordon Wood, New York Times Book Review

Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by probably the most greatest American historians, The Upward thrust of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the hole shots of the Civil War. Ferocious clashes some of the Founders over the role of atypical citizens in a central authority of “we, the folk” were in the end resolved within 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. Winner of the Bancroft Award, shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2005 and best possible book of New York magazine and The Economist.

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