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The age of Jackson / by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

LIBRA E381 .S38 1945c
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845.
Jackson, Andrew.
Democracy.
United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
United States.
Politics and government.
Physical Description:
xiv, 577 pages ; 20 cm
Place of Publication:
Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1945]
Contents:
Prologue: 1829
End of Arcadia
Keepers of the Jeffersonian conscience
Background for revolution
The first year
The men around the president
Beginnings of the Bank War
Veto
Counterattack
Hard money
Credo of the workingmen
Stirrings in the Bay State
George Bancroft and radicalism in Massachusetts
Radicalism in New York
Rise of the Locofocos
The pattern of Locofocoism
The third term
Panic
Divorce of bank and state
The Southern dilemma
Radicalism at high water
The Whig counterreformation
1840
Jacksonian democracy as an intellectual movement
Jacksonian democracy and the law
Jacksonian democracy and industrialism
Jacksonian democracy and religion
Jacksonian democracy and utopia
Jacksonian democracy and literature
Tyler too
Minorities and majorities
Cloud on the horizon
Gathering of the storm
Free Soil
The storm approaches
"Our federal union
"
Traditions of democracy.
Notes:
"Unabridged" paperback ed.-- Back cover.
"LB 18"--Cover.
"The outgrowth of a series of lectures entitled 'A reinterpretation of Jacksonian democracy' delivered at the Lowell institute in Boston in the fall of 1941"--Acknowledgements.
"773433."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-59) and index.
Local Notes:
Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
ISBN:
0316773433
9780316773430
OCLC:
217255062

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