The politicians & the egalitarians : the hidden history of American politics /

'There are two keys to unlocking the secrets of American politics and American political history.' So begins The Politicians & the Egalitarians, by Princeton historian Sean Wilentz. First, America is built on an egalitarian tradition. At the nation's founding, Americans believed t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wilentz, Sean (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	United States > Politics and government. Equality > United States > History. Partisanship > Political aspects > United States > History. Political culture > United States > History. Politicians > United States > Biography. Political activists > United States > Biography. Social reformers > United States > Biography. Political parties > United States > History. Social movements > United States > History.

Table of Contents:

The postpartisan style in American politics
America's forgotten egalitarian tradition
Thomas Paine: The origins of American egalitarianism
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams: Slavery's arch-enemy
John Brown: The temptation of terror
Abraham Lincoln: Egalitarian politician
Democracy at Gettysburg, 1863
The steel town and the Gilded Age
W.E.B. Du Bois: A heroic education
Theodore Roosevelt: Politics and folly
The liberals and the leftists
The Cold War and the perils of junk history
Lyndon B. Johnson: The triumph of politics.