General Information

Author/Creator

McDougall, Walter A., 1946-

Language

English.

Published

New York : Harper, c2008.

Physical Description

xxvi, 787 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

From its shocking curtain-raiser--the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835--to the climactic centennial year of 1876, with a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), this sequel to Freedom Just Around the Corner 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. But, more than just a political history, this book presents 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 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; in which railroad management and land speculation prove as gripping as Indian wars.--From publisher description.

Subjects

Subject

United States > History > 1815-1861.

United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States > History > 1865-1898.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Walter A. McDougall.

Content

Synopsis of Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585-1828 -- 1. Pretenders? The Melees and Masks of White Man's Democracy Post-1830 -- 2. Old Hickory, Indians, Bankers, and Whigs. The Politics of Anger Breeds a New Party System, 1829-1840 -- 3. Migrants, Farmers, Mechanisc, and Clowns. The Anxious, Exciting Birth of an Industrial People, 1830-1860 -- 4. Romantic Revelators, Reformers, and Writers. Social Perfectionism and Cultural Pretense, 1830-1860 -- 5. Conquistadors. The Glory, Gold, and Shame of Manifest Destiny, 1841-1848 -- 6. Forty-niners, Filibusters, Free Soilers, and Fire-eaters. Gospels of Slavery, Commerce, and Christ Sunder the Civil Religion, 1849-1860 -- 7. Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The Sanguinary Salvation of American Myths, 1861-1865 -- 8. Radicals, Klansmen, Barons, and Bosses. Reconstructed, the Great White Republic Flees to the Future, 1865-1877 -- 9. Truth-tellers? Gimlet Eyes on a Republic of Pretense.

ISBN

9780060567514

0060567511

9780060567538

0060567538

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	973.7 MCD		OSA Repository	Donation of School of Public Policy.

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