![]() ![]() It too is no airplane read, coming in at 904 pages, but he covers the period extremely well.Īnd now David S. Last year saw the publication of Daniel Walker Howe’s “What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848,” which won the Pulitzer Prize. ![]() In 2005 the Princeton historian Sean Wilentz published “The Rise of American Democracy,” covering at great length (1,044 pages) the 19th century up to the Civil War. Politics often revolved around now obscure issues like the tariff, the Second Bank of the United States and “internal improvements.” The presidents in this period, with one notable exception, are barely remembered today for anything other than having been president. The time between the end of the age of the founding fathers and the beginning of the Civil War era was for a long time something of a historical black hole for many Americans. ![]()
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