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The age of Jackson.

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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.
Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845.
United States--Politics and government--1829-1837.
United States.
Politics and government.
United States--Politics and government--1829-1837--Sources.
elnök--Egyesült Államok--18-19. sz.
belpolitika--Egyesült Államok--19. sz.
Local Subjects:
Jackson, Andrew 1767-1845.
United States--Politics and government--1829-1837--Sources.
elnök--Egyesült Államok--18-19. sz.
belpolitika--Egyesült Államok--19. sz.
Physical Description:
xiv, 577 pages ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1953 [©1945]
Summary:
Discusses the end of the Jeffersonian agricultural era to the rise of industrialism and its radical effects on the national economy during the Jacksonian period.
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
Hard money
Credo of the workingman
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 dilemmas
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
Appendix.
Notes:
Pulitzer Prize, History, 1946.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-559).
Other Format:
Online version: Schlesinger, Arthur M. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007. Age of Jackson.
ISBN:
0316773441
9780316773447
0316773433
9780316773430
OCLC:
1662683

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