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

by Sean Wilentz

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393930084
• ISBN13: 9780393930085
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 8.3"