Jefferson S Second Revolution
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Jefferson S Second Revolution
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Author : Susan Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2004
Jefferson S Second Revolution written by Susan Dunn and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Discusses the constitutional crisis that ensued when the presidential election of 1800 resulted in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, a situation that Congress was supposed to resolve.
The Second Revolution
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Author : Sam Darcy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
The Second Revolution written by Sam Darcy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
Dominion Of Memories
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Author : Susan Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2007-07-30
Dominion Of Memories written by Susan Dunn and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-30 with History categories.
For decades, the Commonwealth of Virginia led the nation. The premier state in population, size, and wealth, it produced a galaxy of leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Mason, Marshall. Four of the first five presidents were Virginians. And yet by the middle of the nineteenth century, Virginia had become a byword for slavery, provincialism, and poverty. What happened? In her remarkable book, Dominion of Memories, historian Susan Dunn reveals the little known story of the decline of the Old Dominion. While the North rapidly industrialized and democratized, Virginia's leaders turned their backs on the accelerating modern world. Spellbound by the myth of aristocratic, gracious plantation life, they waged an impossible battle against progress and time itself. In their last years, two of Virginia's greatest sons, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, grappled vigorously with the Old Dominion's plight. But bound to the traditions of their native soil, they found themselves grievously torn by the competing claims of state and nation, slavery and equality, the agrarian vision and the promises of economic development and prosperity. This fresh and penetrating examination of Virginia's struggle to defend its sovereignty, traditions, and unique identity encapsulates, in the history of a single state, the struggle of an entire nation drifting inexorably toward Civil War.
The Second American Revolution
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Author : James C. Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-10-15
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In The Second American Revolution, author James Thompson provides a long overdue analysis of the ten-year insurgency James Madison managed for his partisan friend, Thomas Jefferson. This revolution began in 1791 and ended in 1801. It differed from the one Sam Adams orchestrated in the 1770s, Mr. Thompson explains, because Jefferson and Madison sought to rid the nation's new republican government of its wrongheaded administrators-and run it themselves, not overthrow and replace it with something new. The author accompanies the two partisans as they divided the American people against themselves with streams of poisonous rhetoric and built an anti-government congressional majority of southerners and westerners by recruiting candidates and managing their elections. The method and mechanisms they developed during their insurgency transformed the nation's enlightened new majoritarian system into a weapon that adversarial parties have used ever since. Mr. Thompson argues that this adversarial party system, fueled by intentionally divisive rhetoric, destroyed the nation's ability to pursue a common good. Beyond this, Jefferson and Madison showed that by being well-organized, a party could perpetuate control of the government and the people. Jefferson won the vice presidency in the election of 1796. Mr. Thompson recounts how he spent his four-year term quietly sabotaging the government of President John Adams and undermining his prospects for re-election. In January 1800, the presidential election looming, the author argues that Jefferson made a deal with New York Republican Aaron Burr. If Burr would deliver New York's all-important electoral votes to the Republicans, Jefferson would reward him by passing his office to Burr when he retired. The deal made, Burr delivered the votes. Jefferson finally became President by defeating Burr the House of Representatives. This killed the deal! Mr. Thompson notes that Jefferson's victory in "the Revolution of 1800" validated his adversarial method. Adversarialism was then adopted by virtually every American office seeker. By 1861, the social divisions and regional animosities had grown so great that Jefferson's agrarian south broke from the Union and ignited a bloody civil war. The author concludes with a reconsideration of Burr's response to Jefferson's treachery.
Thomas Jefferson
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Author : R. B. Bernstein
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-05-06
Thomas Jefferson written by R. B. Bernstein and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-06 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discusses the private life and public career of the fifth president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.
America S Second Revolution
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Author : Harlow Giles Unger
language : en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date : 2007-09-01
America S Second Revolution written by Harlow Giles Unger and has been published by Turner Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-01 with History categories.
The Declaration of Independence liberated one continent from domination by another, but the Constitution revolutionized the world--by entrusting citizens with rights never before in history granted to ordinary people. Far from the genteel unity implied by the Constitution's opening words "We the People," the struggle to create and ratify this powerful document was as difficult as the fight for independence from Britain had been. The road to independence had led straight to hell. America was ablaze in anarchy and civil strife. As civil war threatened, George Washington called for a new constitution creating a powerful new federal government to restore order. For the majority of Americans, the new Constitution drafted in Philadelphia seemed a disaster, creating a new American government with the same powers of taxation as the former British government and led by a president with powers to succeed himself indefinitely and become a monarch. Former Virginia governor Patrick Henry cried out against such a central authority that could stifle state sovereignty: "Liberty will be lost and tyranny will result." George Washington countered, calling Henry an enemy of liberty. The ratification process began and, over the next nine months, America warred with itself, as each state joined in what became American's "second revolution." Just as the first revolution had brought Americans together, the second threatened to rip the nation apart, as Washington's Federalists battled Henry's Antifederalists. Mobs ran riot in the streets of Philadelphia, New York, and Providence. The wealthy elite supported the new Constitution and a strong central government, while a majority of ordinary people opposed both, and populist leaders such as Henry and New York governor George Clinton geared for violent conflict between the states to preserve state sovereignty. By mid-March 1788, eight of the nine states required for ratification of he Constitution had ratified. But Virginia, the largest and the wealthiest state, stood firm with New York against union, and without them the new nation would be as fragile as the parchment on which the Constitution had been written. With the fate of the country in the balance, Washington could only hope for a miracle to save the nation from all-out civil war and disunion. In America's Second Revolution, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger tells the gripping story of that miracle, the harrowing events that led up to it, and the men who made it possible. Rich and powerful, they displayed humor, sarcasm, fire, brilliance, ignorance, hypocrisy, warmth, anger, bigotry, and hatred. Their struggle pitted friend against friend, brother against brother, father against son. But, in the end, they helped create a new government, a new nation, and, ultimately, a new civilization.
Friends Of Liberty
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Author : Gary Nash
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-03-12
Friends Of Liberty written by Gary Nash and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-12 with History categories.
Friends of Liberty tells the remarkable story of three men whose lives were braided together by issues of liberty and race that fueled revolutions across two continents. Thomas Jefferson wrote the founding documents of the United States. Thaddeus Kosciuszko was a hero of the American Revolution and later led a spectacular but failed uprising in Poland, his homeland. Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black New Englander, volunteered at eighteen to join the Continental Army. During the Revolution, Hull served Kosciuszko as an orderly, and the two became fast friends. Kosciuszko's abhorrence of bondage shaped histhinking about the oppression in his own land. When Kosciuszko returned to America in the 1790s, bearing the wounds of his own failed revolution, he and Jefferson forged an intense friendship based on their shared dreams for the global expansion of human freedom. They sealed their bond with a blood compact whereby Jefferson would liberate his slaves upon Kosciuszko's death. But Jefferson died without fulfilling the promise he had made to Kosciuszko-and to a fledgling nation founded on the principle of liberty and justice for all.
Jefferson And The Rights Of Man
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Author : Dumas Malone
language : en
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Release Date : 1968-01-30
Jefferson And The Rights Of Man written by Dumas Malone and has been published by Back Bay Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968-01-30 with History categories.
The second volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography tells the story of the eventful middle years in the life of Thomas Jefferson: his ministry to France in the years just before the French Revolution and during the early stages of that conflict; his service as secretary of state in President George Washington's first cabinet; the crucial period of his first differences with Alexander Hamilton and the beginnings of his long struggle with the Federalists. .
The American Revolution Of 1800
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Author : Dan Sisson
language : en
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Release Date : 2014-09-15
The American Revolution Of 1800 written by Dan Sisson and has been published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with Political Science categories.
An insightful assessment of Jefferson’s defeat of Adams in the 1800 election, and how it represented a blow against elitism and authoritarianism. In this brilliant historical classic, Dan Sisson provides the definitive window into key concepts that have formed the backdrop of our democracy: the nature of revolution, stewardship of power, liberty, and the ever-present danger of factions and tyranny. Most contemporary historians celebrate Jefferson’s victory over Adams in 1800 as the beginning of the two-party system, but Sisson believes this reasoning is entirely the wrong lesson. Jefferson saw his election as a peaceful revolution by the American people overturning an elitist faction that was stamping out cherished constitutional rights and trying to transform our young democracy into an authoritarian state. If anything, our current two-party system is a repudiation of Jefferson’s theory of revolution and his earnest desire that the people as a whole, not any faction or clique, would triumph in government. Sisson’s book makes clear that key ideas of the American Revolution did not reach their full fruition until the “Revolution of 1800,” to which we owe the preservation of many of our key rights. With contributions by Thom Hartmann that bring out the book’s contemporary relevance, this fortieth anniversary edition contains new insights and reflections on how Jefferson’s vision can help us in our own era of polarization, corruption, government overreach, and gridlock
Setting The World Ablaze
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Author : John E. Ferling
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
Setting The World Ablaze written by John E. Ferling and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Setting the World Ablaze tells the story of the American Revolution and of three Founders who played crucial roles in winning the War of Independence and creating a new nation: George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. A leading historian of the Revolutionary era, Ferling draws upon an unsurpassed command of the primary sources and a talent for swiftly moving narrative to give us intimate views of each of these men. He provides both an overarching historical picture of the era and a gripping sense of how these conservative men--successful members of the colonial elite--were transformed into radical revolutionaries.