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The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History. Edited by Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak, and Julian E. Zelizer. xiv + 422 pp. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. References, index. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-691-11376-9; paper 0-691-11377-7.

The central message of this essay collection is that U.S. political history is in good shape. The Democratic Experiment is framed as an answer to the laments of leading political historians in the 19903 that the field had been marginalized by social and cultural history. This verdict was never warranted. What declined was not "political history," but the "new political history" of the 19703-specifically, ...

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