While William Gienapp pushes some points further than I would, most of what he writes about Charles Sellers's The Market Revolution is well taken. For even a distinguished senior historian, present attitudes and ideologies generate the taxonomy into which the past is inserted. This is unfortunate because there is so much in Sellers's book that is incisive and instructive, particularly to someone who is not a political historian. No one to my knowledge has integrated the social and political history of the Jackson era with the story of the unmistakable “market revolution” that occurred in such a detailed, generally consistent, and enjoyable fashion.