Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFor so slim a volume, there is much to admire. Perfectly balancing evidence with exposition and nicely illustrating the visual texture of the era through images,
The Coming of Democracy is a welcomed contribution to the study of American political culture in its formative years.
—Thomas J. Balcerski Jr., Associate professor Eastern Connecticut State University. Author of
Bosom Friends: The Intimate World ofJames Buchanan and William Rufus King (2019),
New York HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Competing Blueprints for Democracy
Chapter 2. Exercising the Right of Freemen
Chapter 3. A New Mode of Electioneering
Chapter 4. We Must Always Have Party Distinctions
Chapter 5. Drums and Fifes and Hickory Clubs
Chapter 6. A Disastrous, Perhaps a Fatal Revolution
Chapter 7. Freemen, Cheer the Hickory Tree
Chapter 8. We Are in the Midst of a Revolution
Chapter 9. A Movement of the People
Chapter 10. He Will Be a Party President
Chapter 11. Bring Out the Hurra Boys
Chapter 12. Hard Cider, Coons, Log Cabins, and Big Balls
Chapter 13. Doggerel Rhymes and Vulgar Pictures
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
