Description: Title: Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics Author: Brands, H. W. Publisher: Doubleday Books Binding: Hardcover Pages: 464 Dimensions: 9.44h x 6.40w x 1.28d Product Weight: 1.65 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780385549240 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. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal 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. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and 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. The first party, the Federalists, formed around Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and their efforts to overthrow the Articles of Confederation and make the federal government more robust. Their opponents organized as the Antifederalists, who feared the corruption and encroachments on liberty that a strong central government would surely bring. The Antifederalists lost but regrouped under the new Constitution as the Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson, whose bruising contest against Federalist John Adams marked the climax of this turbulent chapter of American political history. 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 towards global dominance, against all odds. Founding Partisans is a powerful reminder that fierce partisanship is a problem as old as the republic. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer {{Overnight Shipping Available (10:30am CST Cutoff Time)}}
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Book Title: Founding Partisans : Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
Number of Pages: 464 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Item Height: 1.4 in
Publication Year: 2023
Topic: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Presidents & Heads of State, Political Process / Political Parties
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 26.6 Oz
Author: H. W. Brands
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
