| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism & Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania. By Andrew Shankman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xii, 298 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1304-8.)

Crucible of American Democracy examines the twists and turns of Pennsylvania's partisan politics from 1790 to 1840 in order to address the question of when and how Americans came to equate democracy with free market capitalism. The book's five chapters (three of which focus on the crucial years 1801–1806) provide a clear and convincing account of how the Jeffersonian coalition of 1800 fractured to produce the Philadelphia Democrats, Quids, Snyderites, National Republicans, Jacksonians, and Whigs that would dominate the next forty years of state politics. With its skillful depictions of the leading figures of these factions, this book provides a readable and reliable political history of Pennsylvania in the early republic.

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