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Author:

Wilentz, Sean.

Title:

The politicians & the egalitarians : the hidden history of American politics / Sean Wilentz.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

W.W. Norton & Company,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xix, 364 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Equality--United States--History.
Partisanship--History.--United States--History.
Political culture--United States--History.
Politicians--United States--Biography.
Political activists--United States--Biography.
Social reformers--United States--Biography.
Political parties--United States--History.
Social movements--United States--History.
United States--Politics and government.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

I. Two keys to American history -- The postpartisan style in American politics -- America's forgotten egalitarian tradition -- II. The politicians & the egalitarians -- Thomas Paine : the origins of American egalitarianism -- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Thomas Jefferson -- John Quincy Adams : slavery's arch-enemy -- John Brown : the temptation of terror -- Abraham Lincoln : egalitarian politician -- Democracy at Gettysburg, 1863 -- The steel town and the Gilded Age -- W.E.B. Du Bois : a heroic education -- Theodore Roosevelt : politics and folly -- The liberals and the leftists -- The Cold War and the perils of junk history -- Lyndon B. Johnson : the triumph of politics.

ISBN:

0393285022 (hardcover)
9780393285024 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2016009662

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)