| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

1816: America Rising. By C. Edward Skeen. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003. xvi, 299 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8131-2271-6.)

With 1816: America Rising, C. Edward Skeen contributes to an outpouring of recent books on specific years in American history, including two on the early republic—Andrew Bur-stein's America's Jubilee: 1826 (2001) and Louis P. Masur's 1831: Year of Eclipse (2001). With such books, the author must demonstrate that the chosen year is both distinctive and illustrative and justify close attention to its particularities and larger claims about its era. 1816 is certainly a crucial year in the too-often-neglected decade or so before the emergence of the second party system.

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