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Throes of Democracy

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by Walter A. McDougall

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And then there came a day of fire! From its shocking curtain-raiser"šÃ„îthe conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835"šÃ„îto the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's 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 is much more than a political history. Here, for the first time, is 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 defined as much by folks in Wisconsin, Kansas, and Texas as by those in Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia; 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; an epic in which railroad management and land speculation prove as gripping as Indian wars. Walter A. McDougall's zesty, irreverent narrative says something new, shrewd, ironic, or funny about almost everything as it reveals our national penchant for pretense"šÃ„îa predilection that explains both the periodic throes of democracy and the perennial resilience of the United States.
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    Harper Collins

  • Tanggal Terbit

    19 Jul, 2014

    Penulis
    Walter A. McDougall
  • Bahasa

    Indonesia

    ISBN

    SCOOPG48213

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