Power to the People

Winning the Revolution did not assure ordinary Americans a role in governing themselves

On The Rise of American Democracy: From Jefferson to Lincoln by Sean Wilentz (W. W. Norton, $35)

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Richard E. Nicholls is a contributing editor of The American Scholar.

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