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EBOOK Age of Federalism:The Early American Republic, 1788-1800
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199796052
EAN: 6BADC4B3EB
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Stron: 944
Data wydania: 1994
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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 "e;a        surprising number of things right."e; 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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