American political history: a very short introduction 9780199340057, 9780199393732, 0199340056

The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy,

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American political history: a very short introduction
 9780199340057, 9780199393732, 0199340056

Table of contents :
The politics of the Constitution, 1787-89 --
Contentious people and factious parties in the Early Republic, 1789-1824 --
The age of democracy, 1816-44 --
The politics of slavery : prelude to the Civil War, 1844-60 --
Politics in war and Reconstruction, 1861-76 --
Gilded Age frustration and the Progressive response, 1877-1918 --
Affluence, depression, and world war, 1920-45 --
Early Cold War politics, 1945-74 --
Tumultuous politics continued, 1974-present.

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