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 The Democratic Republic, 1801–1815
Marshall Smelser
Now available from Waveland Press, the author
has skillfully organized the abundant learning of those who have authored so
many specialized studies of the history of the United States from 1801 to 1815
in an interesting and accessible fashion. A combination of several monographs
and documents and a sampling of earlier sources—press, polemics, reports,
correspondence, and memoirs—tell a coherent and illuminating story. The Thomas
Jefferson portrayed in this text is no flaming radical, but instead a Whiggish
moderate. Without overlooking his flaws, a sympathetic portrait is presented of
the man who was more a friend to liberty than democracy and whose passion for
peace provoked the contempt of Europe. James Madison is viewed as an adroit
politician whose “constitutional republicanism” unfortunately hobbled his
operations as a war president. In addition to these men, a whole cast of
colorful individualists appears in these pages, from the deceitful Burr to the
eccentric Randolph. The history of this period is examined in the disunity of
the nation at the time of the War of 1812, the steps by which the nation was led
into a European war and how, as a third-rate power fighting a naval colossus,
the United States managed to avoid other than local disasters and emerge from
the conflict with its independence vindicated and confirmed. $20.50 list, 369 pages 10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-668-8 13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-668-9 © 1968 Table of Contents
1. Mr. Jefferson in 1801 |