Preface.- PART I: OLD HICKORY, PRINCE HAL, AND THE EARLY REPUBLIC Introduction.- Social Change and the Market Revolution.- Politics in the Early Republic.- Jackson, Clay, and the Party System.- The Making of a Tennessee Gentleman.- The Gentleman becomes a Hero.- The Warhawk from Kentucky.- Postwar Problems: Banking Panic and Missouri Crisis.- Round One : 1824.- Round Two: 1828.- The Hero becomes a President.- Four More Years.- Aftermath.- PART II: 25 CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS.
Harry L. Watson teaches history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"I'm quite amazed at what Watson has accomplished in his introduction.... I find his comparison of Jackson and Clay representing democracy and economic development to be very sound and intelligently and convincingly argued. I don't think anyone has put the essential issues facing the nation in the antebellum period so succinctly and simply."
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