Waking Giant : America in the Age of Jackson

The Bancroft Prize-winning author offers a fascinating history of Jacksonian America. "Waking Giant" captures the turbulence of a democracy caught in the throes of the slavery controversy, the rise of capitalism, and the birth of urbanization. 40 bw illustrations throughout.

David S. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include John Brown Abolitionist, winner of Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award; Walt Whitman's America, winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Beneath the American Renaissance, winner of the Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He lives in Ole Westbury, New York.