His highly detailed The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (W. Wilentz has also co-authored books on nineteenth-century religion and working-class life. Wilentz's historical scholarship has focused on the importance of class and race in the early national period, especially in New York City.
at Yale University and in 1980 received his Ph.D., also from Yale, under David Brion Davis's supervision. One of his mentors at Columbia was scholar of US history James P. at Columbia University in 1972, before earning another at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1974 on a Kellett Fellowship. Wilentz attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York, and earned one B.A. Wilentz was born on February 20, 1951, in New York City, where his father, Eli Wilentz, and uncle Theodore "Ted" Wilentz, owned a well-known Greenwich Village bookstore, the Eighth Street Bookshop. He has written numerous award-winning books and articles including, most notably, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. social and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His primary research interests include U.S. Robert Sean Wilentz ( / w ɪ ˈ l ɛ n t s/ born February 20, 1951) is an American historian who serves as the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. Bancroft Prize (2006), Pulitzer Prize finalist (2006), Albert J.
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