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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... Puritan Ideas of Leadership / 14 John Winthrop , Nehemias Americanus / 18 John Dryden : " Kings are the public pillars of the State " / 20 The Growth of the Commercial Ethic / 22 2. Ancients and Moderns in the Age of Pope and Swift / 29 ...
... Puritan Ideas of Leadership / 14 John Winthrop , Nehemias Americanus / 18 John Dryden : " Kings are the public pillars of the State " / 20 The Growth of the Commercial Ethic / 22 2. Ancients and Moderns in the Age of Pope and Swift / 29 ...
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... Puritan revolution , in the theory and practice of 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 ...
... Puritan revolution , in the theory and practice of 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 ...
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... Puritan Ideas of Leadership Indeed , among the very Puritans who beheaded Charles I the ideal of the good ruler cloaked in magisterial authority remained essential to their vision of a godly commonwealth . Long before the English Civil ...
... Puritan Ideas of Leadership Indeed , among the very Puritans who beheaded Charles I the ideal of the good ruler cloaked in magisterial authority remained essential to their vision of a godly commonwealth . Long before the English Civil ...
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... Puritans also accepted the traditional sense of hierarchy in society that held that some were fit to rule and some to ... Puritan conceptions of the good ruler , then , following centuries of Christian teaching , arose from the Apostle ...
... Puritans also accepted the traditional sense of hierarchy in society that held that some were fit to rule and some to ... Puritan conceptions of the good ruler , then , following centuries of Christian teaching , arose from the Apostle ...
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... Puritan arguments , could be enlisted on the side of executive authority and even prerogative , when seen apart from the many specific quarrels the Puritans had with royal officials . ... But discretion and responsibility , another Puritan ...
... Puritan arguments , could be enlisted on the side of executive authority and even prerogative , when seen apart from the many specific quarrels the Puritans had with royal officials . ... But discretion and responsibility , another Puritan ...
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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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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