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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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