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The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840 (The American Moment)

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Title: The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840 (The American Moment)
by Daniel Feller, Stanley I. Kutler
ISBN: 0-8018-5168-8
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Pub. Date: December, 1995
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $18.95
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Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)

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Rating: 4
Summary: The Jacksonian Period introducing the themes
Comment: The Jacksonian Promise: America 1815-1840 covers everything: optimism with the Erie Canal, the technology improvements, the commerce, the enlightenment, religious developments, and modern politics. It is best defined as in-between textbook that does not follow everything in the Antebellum America, but enough that it's a good book to fall back onto. The book was a required reading for my History 414 (Antebellum United States: 1800-1860). I enjoyed reading the book, but at times I skipped pages to keep up. I suggest reading chapters nine and ten.

What would you read in the Jacksonian Promise? For example in Chapter 10: Descents into Discord, it covers the Democrats and Whigs, party politics, the reassessment of character, the constriction of choices, slavery and sectional cleavage, and toward Civil War.

Keller's writing is smooth and the themes are well organized. If you are looking for a book on the Jacksonian era that is a cheap and well worth the price this is the book for you. I am giving it four stars because it's well organized that you can be half asleep and copy down some good notes, the price, and sometimes it is very interesting to read. A reminder the book is actually only 204 pages because the rest are the bibliography and index.

Rating: 4
Summary: A nice intro to the period
Comment: Argues that the central feature of the Jacksonian period was its forward-looking quality, how hopeful and optimistic people were about the future. Does quite a good job of surveying the literature that's out there on the Jacksonian period. If you need a relatively short introduction to the themes of this period in American history, then this is a good place to begin

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