Chants Democratic

The best book yet written about the emergence of New York City's working class and a major contribution to American working-class history. --The New Republic [Chants Democratic] has no equal in breadth of subject, grace of style or acuity of interpretation. --The Nation Wilentz has written the statement on Jacksonian New York.... A great leap forward in both American social and American political history. --Journal of American History A remarkable book that will quickly establish itself in the historiography and exert a powerful influence on the future direction of social, labor, and political history. --Journal of Interdisciplinary History Certainly the best book yet written about the emergence of New York City's working class and a major contribution to American working-class history. --The New Republic [Chants Democratic] is nothing less than a scholarly epic...it has no equal in breadth of subject, grace of style or acuity of interpretation. --The Nation A great leap forward in both American social and American political history....Wilentz has written the statement on Jacksonian New York. --Journal of American History Chants Democratic is a remarkable book that will quickly establish itself in the historiography and exert a powerful influence on the future direction of social, labor, and political history. --Journal of Interdisciplinary History Gives the student of the Jacksonian Era an insider's look at the developing labor system of the northern industrialization process. In my 'Voices of the Union' course I use Chants to contrast the young republic's divergent and conflicting concepts of the Union, including its ideologic, economic, political, religious, and historical identities. --Wayne Cutler, University of Tennessee A brilliant book. --U. Scharff, University of New Mexico