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Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most
influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding
the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including Aristocracy
in America (1839), a fictional, satiric travel memoir written in
response to Alexis de Tocqueville's famous Democracy in America.
However, Grund's political work and life have never been analyzed
in depth. In his introduction to this long out-of-print work, Armin
Mattes provides a thorough account of Grund's dynamic engagement in
American political life, and brings to light many of Grund's
reflections on American social and political life previously
published only in German. Comparing Aristocracy in America with
Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Mattes shows how Grund's work
can expand our understanding of the emerging democratic political
culture and society in the antebellum United States. In Jacksonian
America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern
cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept
their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as
social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the
nature of the struggle between "aristocracy" and "democracy" that
loomed so large in early republican Americans' minds.
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