Presidents above party : the first American presidency, 1789-1829

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Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Unsettledness of 1789; PART I: Ideas of Leadership in Anglo-America, 1600-1789; 1. Morality, Commerce, and Leadership in Seventeenth-Century England; Puritan Ideas of Leadership; John Winthrop, Nehemias Americanus; John Dryden: Kings are the public pillars of the State

The Growth of the Commercial Ethic; 2. Ancients and Moderns in the Age of Pope and Swift; Mandeville, Defoe, and Modernity

Walpole and Pope; Swift's Lilliputian England; The Eminence of Walpole's Critics; 3. The Opposition Whigs and Bolingbroke. ""Oppositionist"" Crosscurrents, 1720-1742The Idea of a Patriot King; Legacy for Leadership in America; 4. Executive Power in the Era of the American Revolution; William Pitt and George III: Ambiguous Models; American Antimonarchism and the Spirit of 1776; The Colonial Governorship; Virtue and Leadership in New Constitutions; PART II: The American Presidency, 1789-1837; 5. The Federalist Presidents; George Washington; John Adams; 6. The First Republican Chief Magistrates; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; 7. The Ebb of the Republican Presidency; James Monroe; John Quincy Adams: Public Servant. The Paradoxical President8. The Jacksonians and Leadership through Party; Martin Van Buren and the New Political Party; Jacksonian Partisanship; The Adamses and the Degradation of the Democratic Dogma

Defoe, Tocqueville, and J.S. Mill; PART III: Republican Dilemmas: Virtue and Commerce, Leadership and Party; 9. Jefferson, Franklin, and the Commonness of Virtue; Jefferson and the Problem of Virtue in a Republic; Republican Leadership; Franklin, Commerce, and Virtue; Antiliberalism among the Common People of America; 10. Alexander Hamilton and the Ideas of Leadership and Party. Commerce and National GreatnessClassical Ideas of Leadership; Executive Transcendence of Faction; Anglo-American Conceptions of Party, 1770-1801; Hamiltonian Leadership: Intention and Party; 11. Executive Power and the Nonpartisan Ideal; Executive Opportunities, 1789; Cultural Tensions and the Presidency; Neither ""Popular"" nor ""Partisan"" Leadership; Nonpartisanship and the Modern Presidency; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X