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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... already at work to paralyze the inde- pendence of Parliament through the arts of bribery , the sale of honors and offices in government and Church , and the control of pocket boroughs , thus giving rise to luxury , extravagance ...
... already at work to paralyze the inde- pendence of Parliament through the arts of bribery , the sale of honors and offices in government and Church , and the control of pocket boroughs , thus giving rise to luxury , extravagance ...
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... already taken . Ideas may exert a great deal of influence on the direction in which such actions go ; they may also be highly useful in “ rationalizing " them afterward . But that is not quite the point . The true relation is closer ...
... already taken . Ideas may exert a great deal of influence on the direction in which such actions go ; they may also be highly useful in “ rationalizing " them afterward . But that is not quite the point . The true relation is closer ...
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... already knew and of what he himself had already done . For most of the delegates were aware , even as they spoke , that the man whose theoretical attributes they were defining was in fact sitting before them . Most of them assumed ...
... already knew and of what he himself had already done . For most of the delegates were aware , even as they spoke , that the man whose theoretical attributes they were defining was in fact sitting before them . Most of them assumed ...
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... already notorious for his tirades against pomp and ceremony , was delicately sounded out on this point by General Arthur St. Clair , acting on behalf of the President . ) Then in a debate on May 7 over the Senate's proposed reply to the ...
... already notorious for his tirades against pomp and ceremony , was delicately sounded out on this point by General Arthur St. Clair , acting on behalf of the President . ) Then in a debate on May 7 over the Senate's proposed reply to 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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The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 Stanley Elkins,Eric McKitrick Pratinjau tidak tersedia - 1994 |
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