Machine derived contents note: Part I. The Crisis of the New Order -- 1. American Democracy in a Revolutionary Age 3 -- 2. The Republican Interest and the Self-Created -- Democracy 17 -- 3. The Making of Jeffersonian Democracy 31 -- 4. Jefferson's Two Presidencies 46 -- 5. Nationalism and the War of 1812 68 -- Part II. Democracy Ascendant -- 6. The Era of Bad Feelings 93 -- 7. Slavery, Compromise, and Democratic Politics 114 -- 8. The Politics of Moral Improvement 136 -- 9. The Aristocracy and Democracy of America 150 -- 10. The Jackson Era: Uneasy Beginnings 166 -- 11. Radical Democracies 174 -- 12. 1832: Jackson's Crucial Year 188 -- 13. Banks, Abolitionists, and the Equal Rights Democracy 207 -- 14. "The Republic has degenerated into a Democracy" 222 -- 15. The Politics of Hard Times 239 -- 16. Whigs, Democrats, and Democracy 253 -- Part III. Slavery and the Crisis of American Democracy -- 17. Whig Debacle, Democratic Confusion 271 -- 18. Antislavery, Annexation, and the Advent of -- Young Hickory 288 -- 19. The Bitter Fruits of Manifest Destiny 306 -- 20. War, Slavery, and the American 1848 321 -- 21. Political Truce, Uneasy Consequences 341 -- 22. The Truce Collapses 363 -- 23. A Nightmare Broods over Society 391 -- 24. The Faith That Right Makes Might 421 -- 25. The Iliad of All Our Woes 436.