Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829–1877

Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829–1877

This eagerly awaited sequel to Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585–1828 carries the saga of the American people’s continuous self-reinvention from the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson through the eras of Manifest Destiny, Civil War, and Reconstruction, America’s first failed crusade to put “freedom on the march” through regime change and nation building.