"First edition ... September 1945.";"The outgrowth of a series of lectures entitled 'A reinterpretation of Jacksonian democracy' delivered at the Lowell institute in Boston in the fall of 1941."--Acknowledgements;Bibliography: p. 529-559;Prologue: 1829 -- End of Arcadia -- Keepers of the Jeffersonian conscience -- Background for revolution -- The first year -- The men around the president -- Beginnings of the Bank War -- Veto -- Counterattack -- Hard money -- Credo of the workingmen -- Stirrings in the Bay State -- George Bancroft and radicalism in Massachusetts -- Radicalism in New York -- Rise of the Locofocos -- The pattern of Locofocoism -- The third term -- Panic -- Divorce of bank and state -- The Southern dilemma -- Radicalism at high water -- The Whig counterreformation -- 1840 -- Jacksonian democracy as an intellectual movement -- Jacksonian democracy and the law -- Jacksonian democracy and industrialism -- Jacksonian democracy and religion -- Jacksonian democracy and utopia -- Jacksonian democracy and literature -- Tyler too -- Minorities and majorities -- Cloud on the horizon -- Gathering of the storm -- Free Soil -- The storm approaches -- "Our federal union--" -- Traditions of democracy;Presents ideologies, controversies, and personalities of the early 1800's instructive to the American as democracy of today