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The age of Jackson

Title
The age of Jackson / by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Author
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1953, ©1945.

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Additional Authors
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
Description
xiv, 557 p.; 23 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society.
Subject
  • Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
  • 1829-1837
  • Politics and government
  • United States > Politics and government > 1829-1837
  • United States
Note
  • "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"--Acknowledgments.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [529]-559.
Source (note)
  • New York Genealogical and Biographical Society;
Awards (note)
  • Pulitzer Prize, History, 1946.
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.
Call Number
NYGB E 381 S38
LCCN
45008340
OCLC
238589193
Author
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (Arthur Meier), 1917-2007.
Title
The age of Jackson / by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Imprint
Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1953, ©1945.
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. [529]-559.
Awards
Pulitzer Prize, History, 1946.
Source
Gift; New York Genealogical and Biographical Society; 2008. NN
Chronological Term
1829-1837
Added Author
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Collection.
Research Call Number
NYGB E 381 S38
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