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Table of contents :
Content: List of illustrations
Chapter 1 The Politics of the Constitution, 1787-89
Chapter 2 Contentious People and Factious Parties in the Early Republic, 1789-1824
Chapter 3 The Age of Democracy, 1816-1844
Chapter 4 The Politics of Slavery: Prelude to the Civil War, 1844-1860
Chapter 5 Politics in War and Reconstruction, 1861-1876
Chapter 6 Gilded Age Frustration and the Progressive Response, 1877-1918
Chapter 7 Affluence, Depression, and World War, 1920-1945
Chapter 8 Early Cold War Politics, 1946-74
Chapter 9 America Divided, 1974-present
References
Further reading
Index

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