Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics by Brands, H. W.

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385549240)

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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics by Brands, H. W.

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics

$32.50
Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics by Brands, H. W.

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics

$32.50
Format: Hardcover
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From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States.

To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade. In Founding Partisans, master historian H. W. Brands has crafted a fresh and lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.

The first party, the Federalists, formed around Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and their efforts to overthrow the Articles of Confederation and make the federal government more robust. Their opponents organized as the Antifederalists, who feared the corruption and encroachments on liberty that a strong central government would surely bring. The Antifederalists lost but regrouped under the new Constitution as the Republicans, led by Thomas Jefferson, whose bruising contest against Federalist John Adams marked the climax of this turbulent chapter of American political history.

The country's first years unfolded in a contentious spiral of ugly elections and blatant violations of the Constitution. Still, peaceful transfers of power continued, and the nascent country made its way towards global dominance, against all odds. Founding Partisans is a powerful reminder that fierce partisanship is a problem as old as the republic.

Author: H. W. Brands
ISBN-10: 0385549245
ISBN-13: 9780385549240
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Language: English
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.44h x 6.40w x 1.28d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/2023 pg. 14
Publishers Weekly 09/11/2023
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2023
Booklist 11/01/2023 pg. 19
By H. W. Brands
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H. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has written more than a dozen biographies and histories, including The General vs. the President, a New York Times bestseller, and Our First Civil War, his most recent book. Two of his biographies, The First American and Traitor to His Class, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

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