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Sean Wilentz

Biography

Sean Wilentz

Sean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the Bancroft Prize-winning THE RISE OF AMERICAN DISCOVERY, BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA and many other works. He is completing his next book, NO PROPERTY IN MAN, on slavery, antislavery and the Constitution, based on his Nathan I. Huggins Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2015.

Sean Wilentz

Books by Sean Wilentz

The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
by Sean Wilentz - History, Nonfiction, Politics

“There are two keys to unlocking the secrets of American politics and American political history.” So begins THE POLITICIANS AND THE EGALITARIANS, Princeton historian Sean Wilentz’s bold new work of history. First, America is built on an egalitarian tradition. At the nation’s founding, Americans believed that extremes of wealth and want would destroy their revolutionary experiment in republican government. Second, partisanship is a permanent fixture in America, and America is the better for it. With these two insights, Wilentz offers a crystal-clear portrait of American history, told through politicians and egalitarians --- a portrait that runs counter to current political and historical thinking.