Richard Buel
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The fascinating story of how New England Federalists threatened to dissolve the Union by making a separate peace with England during the War of 1812.
Many people would be surprised to learn that the struggle between Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party and Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party defined--and jeopardized--the political life of the early American republic. Richard Buel Jr.'s America on the Brink looks at why the Federalists, who worked...