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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 973.5 EAN: 9780060826567 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0060826568 Label: Harper Manufacturer: Harper Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: October 01, 2008 Publisher: Harper Release Date: September 30, 2008 Studio: Harper Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: America experienced unprecedented expansion and turmoil in the years between 1815 and 1848. In Waking Giant, Bancroft Prize-winning historian and literary critic David S. Reynolds illuminates the period's exciting political story as well as the fascinating social and cultural movements that influenced it. He casts fresh light on Andrew Jackson, who redefined the presidency, along with John Quincy Adams and James K. Polk, who expanded the nation's territory and strengthened its position internationally. Waking Giant captures the turbulence of a democracy caught in the throes of the controversy over slavery, the rise of capitalism, and the birth of urbanization. Reynolds reveals unknown dimensions of the Second Great Awakening with its sects, cults, and self-styled prophets. He brings to life the reformers, abolitionists, and temperance advocates who struggled to correct America's worst social ills. He uncovers the political roots of some of America's greatest authors and artists, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Edgar Allan Poe to Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand, and he reveals the shocking phenomena that marked the age: bloody duels and violent mobs, P. T. Barnum's freaks and all-seeing mesmerists, polygamous prophets and wealthy prostitutes, table-lifting spiritualists and rabble-rousing feminists. All were crucial to the political and social ferment that led to the Civil War. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Waking Giant is a brilliant chronicle of America's vibrant and tumultuous rise. Average Rating:
 Rating: - The Revolutionary generation grows old, the country grows west, the culture grows up, and religion grows wildReynolds history resuscitates Jackson's reputation and places his presidency in the political, cultural, and religious context of the "Age of Jackson" (roughly 1820 to 1850). As with all histories that cover a specific time scope, the selection is somewhat artificial, but Reynolds' account does a good job of setting the stage for Jackson's entrance (the Revolutionary generation growing old, the country growing west, the culture growing up, and religion growing wild), and pointing the spotlight of ... Read More Rating:  - Waking Giant PurchasePurchased on the Amazon Marketplace. Easy to make he selection and the transaction. Book arrived in great shape. Price was good. The b okk was shipped right away. A great experience. I am really enjoying the book. It covers the early 1800s in a manner that gives me much more insight to the developing nation than I had before. Interesting personal and cultural information brings the insights to light. Highly recommended to the history buff or anyone interested in how Americans came to ... Read More Rating: - Waking Giant: A good history book dealing with the Age of JacksonWaking Giant is a new book by Dr. David S. Reynolds who teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The book deals with America in the Age of Andrew Jackson. The book covers the years from 1815 to 1848. During this era the United States tripled in population and industrial might. The era began with the end of the War of 1812 ending with the Mexican War of 1846-1848. The greatest president of the era was Andrew Jackson (1828-1836). He was the first president ... Read More Rating:  - Another Jackson ApologiaI have read two of David Reynolds' books, this one and the biography of John Brown. In both cases, while the books were rich in cultural anecdotes--particularly, in Waking Giant, the sexual tensions between the dawning Victorian Age and the age of mass produced pulp pornography--politically they are astonishingly facile. Reynolds' argument in John Brown, for example, that Brown was a terrorist who happened to be on the right side is simply a rehash of the "ends justify the means" argument. Didn't Chris ... Read More Rating: - Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson (Audiobook)This is another in Tantor's well-produced books-on-CD. The book itself is an enjoyable and, at times, entertaining history of the "Era of Good Feelings" and Jacksonian America. The author, David Reynolds, is superb in describing the times and personalities of the pre-Civil War era. 
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