Bøker av Edward Pessen

Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated

?(Pessen) rightly recognizes the need to comprehend the era's economic, social, and humanitarian developments. This is a good collection that should stimulate student interest in a fascinating era.?-Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

Until publication of Riches, Classes, and Power, Alexis de Tocquerville's vision of the United States as a generally egalitarian nation predominated

The first book to sum up the consequences of the cold war for Americans.

A perennial choice for courses on antebellum America, Jacksonian America continues to be a popular classroom text with scholars of the period, even among those who bridle at Pessen's iconoclastic views of Old Hickory and his "inegalitarian society."