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Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1918.
Language
English
Description
This book delivers a survey the years from 1789 to 1800 in American government, concentrating on President George Washington and his Cabinet members. The author, a college professor and political analyst, also served in the Woodrow Wilson presidential administration in the early twentieth century. His assessment of Washington's ability centered on Washington's good judgment, and careful, methodical approach to problem solving. Not entirely a civics...
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
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. America on the Brink looks at why the Federalists, who worked so hard to consolidate the federal government before 1800, went to great lengths to subvert it after Jefferson's election. In addition to taking the side of the British in...
