Jacksonian democracy was rather a second phase of that enduring struggle between the business community and the rest of society which is the guarantee of freedom in a liberal capitalist state.

How are Jacksonian Democracy and the Trump presidential run related? It has been 187 years since a populist has been elected president. Andrew Jackson served as the seventh president from 1829 ...

Jacksonian America likes strong leaders, even those like George Washington and the two Roosevelts who come from elite backgrounds and whose policy preferences don’t always align perfectly with ...

America’s Jacksonian Turn The assassination attempt gives new power to an old political tendency. By Walter Russell Mead Share ...

Books & the Arts August 10, 2017 The Two Andrew Jacksons Jacksonian democracy may have been liberating for some, but it was repressive for many others.

With every advance, there has been a setback. And at points, such as during the age of Jacksonian democracy, democratic expansion for some demanded democratic retrenchment for others.

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Sean Wilentz’s impressive new book The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln ambitiously tries to mend these breaches by presenting a history in which the fragments of identity ...

Can Democracy Work? A Short History of a Radical Idea from Ancient Athens to Our World James Miller. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-13764-9 ...

Tocqueville’s deservedly famous book, “Democracy in America,” was the product of his nine-month excursion throughout Jacksonian America.