Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829George 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 Ada |
Contents
The Unsettledness of 1789 | 1 |
Morality Commerce and Leadership in Seventeenth Century England | 11 |
John Winthrop Nehemias Americanus | 16 |
Kings are the public pillars of the State | 18 |
The Growth of the Commercial Ethic | 20 |
Ancients and Moderns in the Age of Pope and Swift | 27 |
Mandeville Defoe and Modernity | 29 |
Walpole and Pope | 36 |
Public Servant | 128 |
The Paradoxical President | 135 |
The Jacksonians and Leadership through Party | 139 |
Jacksonian Partisanship | 148 |
The Adamses and the Degradation of the Democratic Dogma | 152 |
Defoe Tocqueville and J S Mill | 156 |
Jefferson Franklin and the Commonness of Virtue | 165 |
Republican Leadership | 169 |
Swifts Lilliputian England | 41 |
The Eminence of Walpoles Critics | 44 |
The Opposition Whigs and Bolingbroke | 49 |
The Idea of a Patriot King | 55 |
Legacy for Leadership in America | 65 |
Executive Power in the Era of the American Revolution | 67 |
American Antimonarchism and the Spirit of 1776 | 70 |
The Colonial Governorship | 72 |
Virtue and leadership in New Constitutions | 74 |
The Federalist Presidents | 87 |
John Adams | 91 |
The First Republican Chief Magistrates | 98 |
James Madison | 111 |
The Ebb of the Republican Presidency | 122 |
Franklin Commerce and Virtue | 174 |
Antiliberalism among the Common People of America | 179 |
Alexander Hamilton and the Ideas of Leadership and Party | 186 |
Classical Ideas of Leadership | 191 |
Executive Transcendence of Faction | 196 |
AngloAmerican Conceptions of Party 17701801 | 201 |
Intention and Party | 207 |
Executive Power and the Nonpartisan Ideal | 213 |
Cultural Tensions and the Presidency | 216 |
Neither Popular nor Partisan Leadership | 223 |
Nonpartisanship and the Modern Presidency | 229 |
Notes | 235 |
Index | 259 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Presidents Above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 Institute bicentennial studies on the Constitution and Early American law and government Institute of Early American History and Culture Series Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American Hist Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia Series |
| Author | Ralph Ketcham |
| Edition | reprint, revised |
| Publisher | UNC Press Books, 1987 |
| ISBN | 080784179X, 9780807841792 |
| Length | 269 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / 19th Century History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) Political Science / American Government / General |
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