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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz (Hardcover, 2006)

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Physical description; xxiii, 1044 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. Notes; First published as a Norton paperback, 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; I. The crisis of the new order. -- American democracy in a revolutionary age -- The Republican interest and the self-created democracy -- The making of Jeffersonian democracy -- Jefferson's two presidencies -- Nationalism and the War of 1812 -- II. Democracy ascendant. -- The era of bad feelings -- Slavery, compromise, and democratic politics -- The politics of moral improvement -- The aristocracy and democracy of America -- The JACKSON era: uneasy beginnings -- Radical democracies -- 1832: JACKSON's crucial year -- Banks, abolitionists, and the equal rights democracy -- "The republic has degenerated into.