@article{303630,
      recid = {303630},
      author = {Wilentz, Sean.},
      title = {The rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln /},
      publisher = {Norton,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xxiii, 1044 p. :},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {Political historian Wilentz traces an arc from the  earliest days of the Republic to the opening shots of the  Civil War, showing how the elitist young American republic  became a rough-and-tumble democracy. He brings to life the  era after the American Revolution, when the idea of  democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians and  Federalists clashed over the role of ordinary citizens in  government of, by, and for the people. The triumph of  Andrew Jackson soon defined this role on the national  level, while city democrats, Anti-Masons, fugitive slaves,  and a host of others hewed their own local definitions. In  these definitions Wilentz recovers the beginnings of a  discontent--two starkly opposed democracies, one in the  North and another in the South--and the wary balance that  lasted until the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked its  bloody resolution.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/303630},
}