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 |
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The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 Ralph Ketcham. Presidents Above Party The First American Presidency , 1789-1829 Ralph Ketcham Presidents Above Party RALPH KETCHAM☀ Presidents Above Party The First. Front Cover.
The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 Ralph Ketcham. Presidents Above Party The First American Presidency , 1789-1829 Ralph Ketcham Presidents Above Party RALPH KETCHAM☀ Presidents Above Party The First. Front Cover.
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The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 Ralph Ketcham. Presidents Above Party RALPH KETCHAM☀ Presidents Above Party The First American Presidency ,
The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 Ralph Ketcham. Presidents Above Party RALPH KETCHAM☀ Presidents Above Party The First American Presidency ,
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... President would be ' above ' political conflict , ... [ a ] high - minded chief magistrate somewhat removed from the tur- bulence of factional strife " and , apparently , removed also from the impor- tant political concerns of the ...
... President would be ' above ' political conflict , ... [ a ] high - minded chief magistrate somewhat removed from the tur- bulence of factional strife " and , apparently , removed also from the impor- tant political concerns of the ...
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... president func- tion openly , unashamedly , and enthusiastically as " the leader of his party " ? Should the common judgment that it is impractical for an effective presi- dent to be , even in the Oval Office , anything other than a ...
... president func- tion openly , unashamedly , and enthusiastically as " the leader of his party " ? Should the common judgment that it is impractical for an effective presi- dent to be , even in the Oval Office , anything other than a ...
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... presidents suggests that another viewpoint might be useful : What did the first six presidents intend to be in their unformed and unprece- dented office ? What admired models , what warning examples , what fears and aspirations did they ...
... presidents suggests that another viewpoint might be useful : What did the first six presidents intend to be in their unformed and unprece- dented office ? What admired models , what warning examples , what fears and aspirations did they ...
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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