In popular American history, the decades between the founding era and the Civil War are a sort of no-man?s land, largely glossed over if not ignored entirely. There are, of course, exceptions. Daniel Walker Howe explored the richness of the period in ?What Hath God Wrought? and won the Pulitzer Prize for his trouble. Andrew Jackson commands a new volume with some regularity. Mostly, though, the era is treated as a dreary interregnum between those plucky patriots with powdered hair and the appalling carnage of the war over slavery.
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