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Summary:

"From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, 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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• The making of a continentalist
• Blessing or curse?
• Conspiracy at Philadelphia
• Patrick Henry smells a rat
• The language of republicanism
• Monarchists and Jacobins
• Aliens and seditionists
• The Revolution of 1800.

Author/Creator:

Brands, H. W. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics [by Brands, H.W.]

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Founding partisans [by Brands, H.W.] (First edition; New York : Doubleday, 2023 — ISBN 9780385549257; LCCN 2023020139)

Subjects:

Founding Fathers of the United States

United States — Politics and government — 1775-1783

United States — Politics and government — 1783-1809

Political culture — United States — History — 18th century

Polarization (Social sciences) — Political aspects — United States — History — 18th century

General Notes:

Map on endpages.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-432) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

E302.5 .B744 2023eb

ISBNs:

9780385549257 (electronic bk.)
0385549253 (electronic bk.)
9780385549240 [Invalid]
0385549245 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1377816404

Other Control Numbers:

3549588 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp305772832