first edition Trade Paperback
2006 · New York
by Wilentz, Sean
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. First printing. Price redacted on rear cover, small tear to spine base, edges rubbed and bumped. 2006 Trade Paperback. xxiii, 1044 pp. A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy. In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz 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. (Inventory #: 2337539)