![]() The themes of the transportation revolution and the Second Great Awakening are recurring throughout the book and he really drives home the point about their importance in the early Republic. ![]() You can clearly see some bias but he never overdoes it. It's a long read (around 900 pages) but it's not a hard one and I thought Howe paints a real fascinating narrative, with some heroes (John Quincy Adams, the Whig Party) and some villains (Jackson, the Democrats, Martin Van Buren). I thought it was a great read! It's part of the Oxford History of the United States series and it deals with the period in American history that's probably least talked about, but one of the most important ones as well. ![]() The sustained quality of Howe's prose makes it even harder to put. ![]() Will, National Review Online 'What Hath God Wrought is the dazzling culmination of the author's lifetime of distinguished scholarship. ![]() So this semester in college I'm taking a class on Jacksonian America and the time period between the War of 18 and we read Daniel Walker Howe's What Hath God Wrought for most of the class and analyzed the chapters and themes throughout the semester. David Walker Howes What God Hath Wrought provides a comprehensive exploration of American in the late anti-bellum era. 'What Daniel Walker Howe hath wrought is a wonderfully mind-opening interpretation of America on the cusp of modernity and might.'George F. ![]()
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