The Age of FederalismOxford University Press, 23 Feb 1995 - 944 halaman When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, America had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first time. Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, and Jefferson himself each had a share in shaping that remarkable era--an era that is brilliantly captured in The Age of Federalism. Written by esteemed historians Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, The Age of Federalism gives us a reflective, deeply informed analytical survey of this extraordinary period. Ranging over the widest variety of concerns--political, cultural, economic, diplomatic, and military--the authors provide a sweeping historical account, keeping always in view not only the problems the new nation faced but also the particular individuals who tried to solve them. As they move through the Federalist era, they draw subtly perceptive character sketches not only of the great figures--Washington and Jefferson, Talleyrand and Napoleon Bonaparte--but also of lesser ones, such as George Hammond, Britain's frustrated minister to the United States, James McHenry, Adams's hapless Secretary of War, the pre-Chief Justice version of John Marshall, and others. They weave these lively profiles into an analysis of the central controversies of the day, turning such intricate issues as the public debt into fascinating depictions of opposing political strategies and contending economic philosophies. Each dispute bears in some way on the broader story of the emerging nation. The authors show, for instance, the consequences the fight over Hamilton's financial system had for the locating of the nation's permanent capital, and how it widened an ideological gulf between Hamilton and the Virginians, Madison and Jefferson, that became unbridgeable. The statesmen of the founding generation, the authors believe, did "a surprising number of things right." But Elkins and McKitrick also describe some things that went resoundingly wrong: the hopelessly underfinanced effort to construct a capital city on the Potomac (New York, they argue, would have been a far more logical choice than Washington), and prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts which turned into a comic nightmare. No detail is left out, or left uninteresting, as their account continues through the Adams presidency, the XYZ affair, the naval Quasi-War with France, and the desperate Federalist maneuvers in 1800, first to prevent the reelection of Adams and then to nullify the election of Jefferson. The Age of Federalism is the fruit of many years of discussion and thought, in which deep scholarship is matched only by the lucid distinction of its prose. With it, Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick have produced the definitive study, long awaited by historians, of the early national era. |
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... sentiments " ) 11 were at the commonwealth's service for the just guidance of its affairs . Such spirits now seemed little in evidence , especially with the resumption of peacetime pursuits . The state legislatures , as Madison and many ...
... sentiments " ) 11 were at the commonwealth's service for the just guidance of its affairs . Such spirits now seemed little in evidence , especially with the resumption of peacetime pursuits . The state legislatures , as Madison and many ...
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... sentiment in the political nation by the middle years of the eighteenth century had come to rest heavily on the Court side . And as time went on , more and more circumstances combined to make the issues between them appear , for all ...
... sentiment in the political nation by the middle years of the eighteenth century had come to rest heavily on the Court side . And as time went on , more and more circumstances combined to make the issues between them appear , for all ...
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... sentiments they repre- sented . The Constitution contained no bill of rights , and this had been a grave obstacle to ratification . One or more states might still change their minds . A legislature or two might try to undo the work of ...
... sentiments they repre- sented . The Constitution contained no bill of rights , and this had been a grave obstacle to ratification . One or more states might still change their minds . A legislature or two might try to undo the work of ...
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... sentiment , counteract the impulses of interest and passion . " Then if , on the other hand , liberty should from time to time be endangered by government , such a standard would be " a good ground for an appeal to the sense of the ...
... sentiment , counteract the impulses of interest and passion . " Then if , on the other hand , liberty should from time to time be endangered by government , such a standard would be " a good ground for an appeal to the sense of the ...
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... sentiments nearly every day . But he also con- ceded that " if gentlemen are content with moderate duties , we are willing to agree to them .... " ( Tucker's colleague Aedanus Burke , meanwhile , urged a duty on hemp , to encourage the ...
... sentiments nearly every day . But he also con- ceded that " if gentlemen are content with moderate duties , we are willing to agree to them .... " ( Tucker's colleague Aedanus Burke , meanwhile , urged a duty on hemp , to encourage the ...
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The Divided Mind of James Madison 1790 Nationalist Versus Ideologue | 133 |
The Republics Capital City | 163 |
Jefferson and the Yeoman Republic | 195 |
Jefferson as Secretary of State | 209 |
The Emergence of Partisan Politics The Republican Interest | 257 |
The Populist Impulse | 451 |
The Retirement of Washington | 489 |
John Adams and the Dogma of Balance | 529 |
Adams and Hamilton | 581 |
The Settlement | 643 |
The Mentality of Federalism in 1800 | 691 |
NOTES | 757 |
INDEX | 911 |
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