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The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
Sean Wilentz
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Description for The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
Hardcover. One of our most eminent historians reminds us of the commanding role party politics has played in America's enduring struggle against economic inequality. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that reveal a much-needed vision of American political history. Firstly, partisanship has almost always been a feature of American history and has made possible its greatest social reforms. Secondly, the recent attention to economic inequality has a long history. From the founders' generation to the present, America's egalitarian tradition has appeared and reappeared like an underground river.
Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that reveal a much-needed vision of American political history. Firstly, partisanship has almost always been a feature of American history and has made possible its greatest social reforms. Secondly, the recent attention to economic inequality has a long history. From the founders' generation to the present, America's egalitarian tradition has appeared and reappeared like an underground river.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393285024
SKU
V9780393285024
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About Sean Wilentz
Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the Bancroft Prize-winning The Rise of American Democracy, Bob Dylan in America, and many other works. He is completing his next book, No Property in Man, on slavery, antislavery, and the Constitution, based on his Nathan I. Huggins Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2015.
Reviews for The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
Wilentz evinces a vast knowledge of the American past while exploring, in his unique way, the interplay between raw party politics and the ebb and flow of reform efforts. In offering his take on pivotal figures from Jefferson to Du Bois, Lincoln to LBJ, Wilentz challenges us to debate history and ideas in a way that honors the best of the democratic system he has written about so provocatively throughout his career. Even when I most disagree with him, his arguments are always vigorous and passionate, lively and engaging.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This stimulating book provides a major new interpretation of the alliance between egalitarian social movements and partisan politics to achieve some of the most notable liberal victories in the American past. Sean Wilentz has done more than anyone else to blend social and political history in a manner that offers powerful new insights.
James M. McPherson Engrossing and deeply enriching...Wilentz the historian is visiting the past to send a message to those of us who live in the 21st century. A shrewd and engaging assessment of the variable American tradition of egalitarianism, particularly as manifested in the political lives of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, right up through Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society
scrupulously detailed, elegantly written, incisively argued, and effectively combative.
Philip Roth A bracing and persuasive defense of political partisanship as essential to a functioning democracy, and a timely reminder that from the country's earliest days, political struggle has been the most effective mechanism for moving America toward the egalitarian ideals enunciated in its founding documents. It is a message that American citizens should never forget.
Annette Gordon-Reed
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This stimulating book provides a major new interpretation of the alliance between egalitarian social movements and partisan politics to achieve some of the most notable liberal victories in the American past. Sean Wilentz has done more than anyone else to blend social and political history in a manner that offers powerful new insights.
James M. McPherson Engrossing and deeply enriching...Wilentz the historian is visiting the past to send a message to those of us who live in the 21st century. A shrewd and engaging assessment of the variable American tradition of egalitarianism, particularly as manifested in the political lives of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, right up through Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society
scrupulously detailed, elegantly written, incisively argued, and effectively combative.
Philip Roth A bracing and persuasive defense of political partisanship as essential to a functioning democracy, and a timely reminder that from the country's earliest days, political struggle has been the most effective mechanism for moving America toward the egalitarian ideals enunciated in its founding documents. It is a message that American citizens should never forget.
Annette Gordon-Reed