{"product_id":"the-democratic-experiment-9780691113777","title":"The Democratic Experiment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores various topics in American politics starting from the nation's founding. This book covers topics ranging from the role of personal character of political elites in the Early Republic, to the importance of courts in building a modern regulatory state, to the centrality of local political institutions in the late twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The present expansiveness and flexibility of political history are well represented in this collection of essays. The [book] should be quite useful in graduate seminars both general and topical.\"--Ronald P. Formisano, Journal of American History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTRIBUTORS ix  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii  CHAPTER ONE  The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History by Meg Jacobs and Julian E. Zelizer 1  CHAPTER TWO  Explaining the Unexplainable: The Cultural Context of the Sedition Act by Joanne B. Freeman 20  CHAPTER THREE  Affairs of Office: The Executive Departments, the Election of 1828, and the Making of the Democratic Party by Richard R. John 50  CHAPTER FOUR  The Legal Transformation of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America by William J. Novak 85  CHAPTER FIVE  Bringing the Constitution Back In: Amendment, Innovation, and Popular Democracy during the Civil War Era by Michael Vorenberg 120  CHAPTER SIX  Democracy in the Age of Capital: Contesting Suffrage Rights in Gilded Age New York by Sven Beckert 146  CHAPTER SEVEN  Domesticity versus Manhood Rights: Republicans, Democrats, and \"Family Values \"Politics,1856-1896 by Rebecca Edwards 175  CHAPTER EIGHT  The Case for Courts: Law and Political Development in the Progressive Era by Michael Willrich 198  CHAPTER NINE  \"Mirrors of Desires\":Interest Groups, Elections, and the Targeted Style in Twentieth-Century America by Brian Balogh 222  CHAPTER TEN  Pocketbook Politics: Democracy and the Market in Twentieth-Century America by Meg Jacobs 250  CHAPTER ELEVEN  The Uneasy Relationship: Democracy, Taxation, and State Building since the New Deal by Julian E. Zelizer 276  CHAPTER TWELVE  All Politics Is Local: The Persistence of Localism in Twentieth-Century America by Thomas J. Sugrue 301  CHAPTER THIRTEEN  Suburban Strategies: The Volatile Center in Postwar American Politics by Matthew D. Lassiter 327  CHAPTER FOURTEEN  From Hartz to Tocqueville: Shifting the Focus from Liberalism to Democracy in America by James T Kloppenberg 350  CHAPTER FIFTEEN  The Possibilities of Analytical Political History Ira Katznelson 381  INDEX 401","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403727708503,"sku":"9780691113777","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-democratic-experiment-9780691113777","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}