Slavery and the crisis of American democracy, 1840-1860
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Slavery and the crisis of American democracy, 1840-1860
(The rise of American democracy, v. 3)
W.W. Norton, c2007
College ed
- : pbk
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Includes index
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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 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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