Rise of American Democracy Jefferson to Lincoln, Book III, Slavery and the Crisis of Democracy, College Textbook Edition

Now available in three separate paperbacks designed for college courses, "The Rise of American Democracy," acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. 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.Wilentz, Sean is the author of 'Rise of American Democracy Jefferson to Lincoln, Book III, Slavery and the Crisis of Democracy, College Textbook Edition', published 2006 under ISBN 9780393930085 and ISBN 0393930084.