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What Hath God Wrought

The Transformation of America 1815-1848
Daniel Walker Howe
2007 · 928 pages

Morse tapped the title into the first telegraph line in 1844. Howe's Pulitzer-winning account of antebellum America argues that communications, markets, and revival religion remade the country while Jacksonian politics took the credit.

★ 6.3