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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... wealthy people with obvious special interests would be invited to lunch at the White House and have the president's closest ... wealth nor exerted undue influence on the president . ) In any case , assumptions of the sort made by Charles ...
... wealthy people with obvious special interests would be invited to lunch at the White House and have the president's closest ... wealth nor exerted undue influence on the president . ) In any case , assumptions of the sort made by Charles ...
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... wealth , and in the skills associated with a superior style of life " was still axiomatic to many Americans.5 Hallowed authorities also emphasized the importance of leadership . Locke had declared that where legislative and executive ...
... wealth , and in the skills associated with a superior style of life " was still axiomatic to many Americans.5 Hallowed authorities also emphasized the importance of leadership . Locke had declared that where legislative and executive ...
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... wealth , piety , moderation , wisdom , and justice.3 The list ap- plied to local as well as national rulers and assumed that in a well - ordered community authority could be exercised legitimately only by those pos- sessing the ...
... wealth , piety , moderation , wisdom , and justice.3 The list ap- plied to local as well as national rulers and assumed that in a well - ordered community authority could be exercised legitimately only by those pos- sessing the ...
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... wealth where nothing is amiss . But yet because God hath so placed us En- glishmen here in one commonwealth , also in one Church , as in one ship together , let us not mangle or divide the ship , which being divided per- isheth , but ...
... wealth where nothing is amiss . But yet because God hath so placed us En- glishmen here in one commonwealth , also in one Church , as in one ship together , let us not mangle or divide the ship , which being divided per- isheth , but ...
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... wealth available from expanded trade at home and abroad . In mid- seventeenth century , one of the earliest economic theorists , Thomas Mun , in a dawning sense of awe and of liberation from immemorial restraints , noted that although ...
... wealth available from expanded trade at home and abroad . In mid- seventeenth century , one of the earliest economic theorists , Thomas Mun , in a dawning sense of awe and of liberation from immemorial restraints , noted that although ...
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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