The age of Jackson

"First edition ... September 1945.";"The outgrowth of a series of lectures entitled 'A reinterpretation of Jacksonian democracy' delivered at the Lowell institute in Boston in the fall of 1941."--Acknowledgements;Bibliography: p. 529-559;Prologue: 1829 -- End of Arcadia -- Keepers of the Jeffersonian conscience -- Background for revolution -- The first year -- The men around the president -- Beginnings of the Bank War -- Veto -- Counterattack -- Hard money -- Credo of the workingmen -- Stirrings in the Bay State -- George Bancroft and radicalism in Massachusetts -- Radicalism in New York -- Rise of the Locofocos -- The pattern of Locofocoism -- The third term -- Panic -- Divorce of bank and state -- The Southern dilemma -- Radicalism at high water -- The Whig counterreformation -- 1840 -- Jacksonian democracy as an intellectual movement -- Jacksonian democracy and the law -- Jacksonian democracy and industrialism -- Jacksonian democracy and religion -- Jacksonian democracy and utopia -- Jacksonian democracy and literature -- Tyler too -- Minorities and majorities -- Cloud on the horizon -- Gathering of the storm -- Free Soil -- The storm approaches -- "Our federal union--" -- Traditions of democracy;Presents ideologies, controversies, and personalities of the early 1800's instructive to the American as democracy of today

"The outgrowth of a series of lectures entitled 'A reinterpretation of Jacksonian democracy' delivered at the Lowell institute in Boston in the fall of 1941."--Acknowledgements

Bibliography: p. 529-559

Prologue: 1829 -- End of Arcadia -- Keepers of the Jeffersonian conscience -- Background for revolution -- The first year -- The men around the president -- Beginnings of the Bank War -- Veto -- Counterattack -- Hard money -- Credo of the workingmen -- Stirrings in the Bay State -- George Bancroft and radicalism in Massachusetts -- Radicalism in New York -- Rise of the Locofocos -- The pattern of Locofocoism -- The third term -- Panic -- Divorce of bank and state -- The Southern dilemma -- Radicalism at high water -- The Whig counterreformation -- 1840 -- Jacksonian democracy as an intellectual movement -- Jacksonian democracy and the law -- Jacksonian democracy and industrialism -- Jacksonian democracy and religion -- Jacksonian democracy and utopia -- Jacksonian democracy and literature -- Tyler too -- Minorities and majorities -- Cloud on the horizon -- Gathering of the storm -- Free Soil -- The storm approaches -- "Our federal union--" -- Traditions of democracy

The young Schlesinger, for all the tradition he embodied, had a refreshing streak of informality. While working in the Kennedy White House, he found time to review movies for Show magazine. He also admitted his mistakes. One, he said, was neglecting to mention President Jackson’s brutal treatment of the Indians in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Age of Jackson.” It was published when he was 27, and is still standard reading.

The book rejected earlier interpretations linking the rise of Jacksonian democracy with westward expansion. Instead, it gave greater importance to a coalition of intellectuals and workers in the Northeast who were determined to check the growing power of business.

The book sold more than 90,000 copies in its first year and won the 1946 Pulitzer Prize for history.