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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... John Dryden and ending with Samuel Johnson , and par- ticularly on the world ... Adamses hear- kened all their lives to these Augustan giants , accepting not so ... Adams , was a view of leadership by no means attuned to the diversified ...
... John Dryden and ending with Samuel Johnson , and par- ticularly on the world ... Adamses hear- kened all their lives to these Augustan giants , accepting not so ... Adams , was a view of leadership by no means attuned to the diversified ...
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... John Quincy Adams , despite many substan- tial differences in both ideology and political practice , shared an essentially nonpartisan conception of the presidency . One can find in the words and deeds of each of them important ...
... John Quincy Adams , despite many substan- tial differences in both ideology and political practice , shared an essentially nonpartisan conception of the presidency . One can find in the words and deeds of each of them important ...
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... John Dryden : " Kings are the public pillars of the State " / 20 The Growth of the Commercial Ethic / 22 2. Ancients ... John Adams / 93 6. The First Republican Chief Magistrates / 100 Thomas Jefferson Contents.
... John Dryden : " Kings are the public pillars of the State " / 20 The Growth of the Commercial Ethic / 22 2. Ancients ... John Adams / 93 6. The First Republican Chief Magistrates / 100 Thomas Jefferson Contents.
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... John Adams , although an earnest and prideful man , nonetheless refused to campaign either to gain the presidency in 1796 or to retain it in 1800. Well aware of the bitter partisanship of the 1790s ( which he had both heightened and ...
... John Adams , although an earnest and prideful man , nonetheless refused to campaign either to gain the presidency in 1796 or to retain it in 1800. Well aware of the bitter partisanship of the 1790s ( which he had both heightened and ...
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... Adams was both aware of and in part responsible for this devel- opment - its ... Adams and Jackson presidencies ? In what way did the leader of the first ... John , Lord Bolingbroke . In surrounding himself with certain ceremonies of ...
... Adams was both aware of and in part responsible for this devel- opment - its ... Adams and Jackson presidencies ? In what way did the leader of the first ... John , Lord Bolingbroke . In surrounding himself with certain ceremonies of ...
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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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Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 Ralph Ketcham Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1987 |
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