LEADER 03437cam a2200421 a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20201204105035.0 007 ta 008 070702s2008 nyub b 001 0 eng 010 2007026499 020 9780060567514 020 0060567511 020 9780060567538 (pbk.) 020 0060567538 (pbk.) 035 (OCoLC)ocn154677373 035 (OCoLC)154677373 |z(OCoLC)191808456 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC |dhubpceuo |bEnglish 041 eng 043 n-us--- 050 00 E338 |b.M38 2008 082 00 973.7 |222 100 1 McDougall, Walter A., |d1946- 245 10 Throes of democracy : |bthe American Civil War era, 1829-1877 / |cWalter A. McDougall. 250 1st ed. 260 New York : |bHarper, |cc2008. 300 xxvi, 787 p. : |bmaps ; |c24 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [613]-757) and index. 505 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. 520 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. 651 0 United States |xHistory |y1815-1861. 651 0 United States |xHistory |yCivil War, 1861-1865. 651 0 United States |xHistory |y1865-1898. 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6973_700000000000000_MCD |70 |8GEN |9129847OSA |bOSA |d2020-12-04 |eOSA |l0 |o973.7 MCD |r2020-12-04 |w2020-12-04 |yBK |zDonation of School of Public Policy. |cOSA Repository 920 01 pXA9MLXG 992 01 973_700000000000000_MCD |bQSW_SZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_DNM 966 |cIn the Research Room