false <![CDATA[Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877]]> 1536793 2 <p> "And then there came a day of fire!" From its shocking curtain-raiser&#8212;the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835&#8212;to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's <i>Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877</i> throws off sparks like a flywheel. This eagerly awaited sequel to <i>Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828</i> carries the saga of the American people's continuous self-reinvention from the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson through the eras of Manifest Destiny, Civil War, and Reconstruction, America's first failed crusade to put "freedom on the march" through regime change and nation building. </p> <p> But <i>Throes of Democracy</i> is much more than a political history. Here, for the first time, is the American epic as lived by Germans and Irish, Catholics and Jews, as well as people of British Protestant and African American stock; an epic defined as much by folks in Wisconsin, Kansas, and Texas as by those in Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia; an epic in which Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, showman P. T. Barnum, and circus clown Dan Rice figure as prominently as Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Henry Ward Beecher; an epic in which railroad management and land speculation prove as gripping as Indian wars. Walter A. McDougall's zesty, irreverent narrative says something new, shrewd, ironic, or funny about almost everything as it reveals our national penchant for pretense&#8212;a predilection that explains both the periodic throes of democracy and the perennial resilience of the United States. </p> 1528927 1 3 2008 Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 total:11|5:8|4:3|3:0|2:0|1:0| 11 52 41 6 1536793 0060567511 9780060567514 9 5 Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 4.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1536793.Throes_of_Democracy_The_American_Civil_War_Era_1829_1877 5 1 false Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 18:27:39 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 22:54:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1536793 0060567511 9780060567514 9 5 Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 4.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1536793.Throes_of_Democracy_The_American_Civil_War_Era_1829_1877 4 0 false Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 28 07:27:46 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 11:06:17 -0700 2008 Freedom Just Around the Corner, in this planned three-volume history of the United States, in Throes of Democracy McDougall views 19th century American with an ironic and conservative (think Burke and not Reagan) eye. The passions that gripped the era - from Jacksonian demo...more...]]> 1536793 0060567511 9780060567514 9 5 Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 4.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1536793.Throes_of_Democracy_The_American_Civil_War_Era_1829_1877 0 0 false Tue Apr 14 22:19:57 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 14 22:21:38 -0700 2009 1536793 0060567511 9780060567514 9 5 Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877 4.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1536793.Throes_of_Democracy_The_American_Civil_War_Era_1829_1877 5 0 false Sat Feb 28 08:46:57 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 17 18:39:35 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 28 08:46:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6467213 0060567538 9780060567538 2 1 Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829-1877 4.73 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6467213-throes-of-democracy 4 0 false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 27 12:57:34 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 16 11:10:41 -0800 2009
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