
Founding Partisans
Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
H. W. Brands(Author)
Bantam Books (Publisher)
Published on 21. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
720 pages
978-0-593-79320-6 (ISBN)
Description
"A revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. The first party, the Federalists, formed around Alexander Hamilton and his efforts to overthrow the Articles of Confederation. Thomas Jefferson and the opposition organized as the Antifederalists, the precursor to the Republicans. The two factions wrestled as George Washington tried to remain above the fray. John Adams, however, our second president, was an avowed Federalist, and very much in the scrum. The country's first years unfolded in a contentious spiral of ugly elections and blatant violations of the Constitution. Still, peaceful transfers of power continued, and the nascent country made its way toward global dominance, against all odds. Founding Partisans is a powerful reminder that fierce partisanship is a problem as old as the republic, one we've survived time and time again"--
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Edition
Large type / large print edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Edition type
Large type / large print edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
984 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-593-79320-6 (9780593793206)
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H. W. Brands
Founding Partisans
Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
E-Book
11/2023
Vintage
€16.99
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Person
H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written more than a dozen biographies and histories, including The General vs. the President, a New York Times bestseller, and Our First Civil War, his most recent book. Two of his biographies, The First American and Traitor to His Class, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.