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From its shocking curtain-raiser-the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835-to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's Throes of Democracy carries the saga of the American people's continuous self-reinvention across five tumultuous decades. From the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson through the eras of Manifest Destiny, Civil War, and Reconstruction, it is 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-a zesty, irreverent narrative that brazenly reveals our national penchant for pretense.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins INC International Concepts
ISBN-139780060567538
eBay Product ID (ePID)2317549231
Product Key Features
Number of Pages816 Pages
Publication NameThroes of Democracy: the American Civil War Era, 1829-1877
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorWalter a Mcdougall
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height204 mm
Item Weight640 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorWalter a Mcdougall