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

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

Sean Wilentz

416 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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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 opp...

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