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America experienced unprecedented progress and turmoil in the years between 1815 and 1848. It had been an age when Andrew Jackson redefined the presidency and Wayne K. Polk broadened the nation's place. Bancroft Award–winning historian and literary critic David S. Reynolds catches the turbulence of any democracy caught in the throes of the controversy over slavery, the climb of capitalism, and the birth of urbanization. He brings to life the reformers, abolitionists, and temperance advocates who battled to correct America's worst cultural ills, and he discloses the surprising phenomena that marked the age: violent mobs, P. T. Barnum's freaks, all-seeing mesmerists, polygamous prophets, and rabble-rousing feminists. Meticulously investigated and masterfully written, Waking Large is a brilliant chronicle of America's vibrant and tumultuous climb.
