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Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The politics of the Constitution, 1787–89
- 2. Contentious people and factious parties in the Early Republic, 1789–1824
- 3. The age of democracy, 1816–44
- 4. The politics of slavery: prelude to the Civil War, 1844–60
- 5. Politics in war and Reconstruction, 1861–76
- 6. Gilded Age frustration and the Progressive response, 1877–1918
- 7. Affluence, depression, and world war, 1920–45
- 8. Early Cold War politics, 1945–74
- 9. Tumultuous politics continued, 1974–present
