Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829UNC Press Books, 01.04.2013 - 288 Seiten George Washington's vision was a presidency free of party, a republican, national office that would transcend faction. That vision would remain strong in the administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, yet largely disappear under Andrew Jackson and his successors. This book is a comprehensive and pathbreaking study of the early presidency and the ideals behind it. Ralph Ketcham examines the roots of nonpartisan leadership in Western thought and the particular influences on the founding fathers. Intellectual and political profiles of the first six presidents and their administrations emphasize the construction each put on the office, the challenges he faced, and the compromises he did and did not make. The erosion of nonpartisanship under Andrew Jackson is presented as a counterpoint that helps define the early presidency and the permanent transition from it. Addressing the thoughtful citizen as well as the scholar, the author poses the fundamental questions about presidential leadership, then and now. The best study of the early presidency, this book is an intellectual portrait of the age that will challenge received notions of American history. |
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... have been appalled at the assignment of such a role to the presidency . Remembering that praise of party and of conflict are by now entirely conventional among both British and American students of politics only viii Preface.
... have been appalled at the assignment of such a role to the presidency . Remembering that praise of party and of conflict are by now entirely conventional among both British and American students of politics only viii Preface.
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The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 Ralph Ketcham. conventional among both British and American students of politics only increases the difficulty of taking quite seriously the scorn Washington , Jefferson , and the Adamses felt for ...
The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 Ralph Ketcham. conventional among both British and American students of politics only increases the difficulty of taking quite seriously the scorn Washington , Jefferson , and the Adamses felt for ...
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... British throne ? How is it that he could link the two as " advocates for human liberty " and could admire an Au- gustan nobleman above Whig parliamentarians ? These paradoxes , in fact , reveal that Jefferson had a view of free ...
... British throne ? How is it that he could link the two as " advocates for human liberty " and could admire an Au- gustan nobleman above Whig parliamentarians ? These paradoxes , in fact , reveal that Jefferson had a view of free ...
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... British government after the " settlement " of 1689 , and particularly in the long period of oligarchy and constitutional monarchy that followed the Peace of Utrecht ( 1713 ) and the ascension of the house of Hanover ( 1714 ) ...
... British government after the " settlement " of 1689 , and particularly in the long period of oligarchy and constitutional monarchy that followed the Peace of Utrecht ( 1713 ) and the ascension of the house of Hanover ( 1714 ) ...
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... British Isles , executive authority con- tracted severely -- and precious little theory or experience , consistent with Revolutionary ideology , was available to fill the vacuum . Madison summed up the basic difference : “ In Europe ...
... British Isles , executive authority con- tracted severely -- and precious little theory or experience , consistent with Revolutionary ideology , was available to fill the vacuum . Madison summed up the basic difference : “ In Europe ...
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The American Presidency 17891837 | 87 |
Republican Dilemmas Virtue and Commerce Leadership and Party | 163 |
Notes | 237 |
Index | 261 |
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Abigail Adams accepted Adams's administration admired Alexander Pope American Revolution ancient Augustan Bernard Mandeville Bolingbroke Britain British Buren Cato century Charles Francis Adams Classical colonies commercial common conception Congress Constitution Convention corruption cultural Daniel Defoe defended Defoe democratic Dunciad early presidents economic eighteenth eighteenth-century election England English ethic executive power faction Federal Federalist Franklin George Hamilton ibid idea ideal ideology insisted J. Q. Adams Jackson Jacksonian James Madison Jeffersonian John Adams John Quincy Adams John Winthrop Jonathan Swift legislative legislature liberty Mandeville ment modern monarch Monroe moral nation Number opposition Parliament partisan partisanship patriot king patriot leader Pitt Plutarch political parties president's principles prosperity public philosophy Puritan quoted radical Whig republic republican Revolutionary role rulers scorned self-interest sense six presidents society sought spirit Thomas Jefferson thought tion Tory trade traditional United virtue virtuous Walpole Walpole's Walpolean Washington wealth Wilson Writings wrote York