The Rise of American Democracy : Slavery and the Crisis of American Democracy, 1840-1860 (College Edition)

Ferocious clashes among the Founders over the role of ordinary citizens in a government of "we, the people" were eventually resolved in the triumph of Andrew Jackson.

Thereafter, Sean Wilentz shows, a fateful division arose between two starkly opposed democracies-a division contained until the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked its bloody resolution.

The College Edition features a new preface and further reading lists for each volume.

It eliminated the endnotes of the one-volume edition but preserves the entire text of the original.