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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
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Author:
H.W. Brands
Publisher:
Doubleday
Date:
November 7, 2023
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 narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.
What The Reviewers Say
Brands’s book is an engaging examination of the early period of the country’s history. But a reader cannot help but believe that this volume is intended to help Americans navigate the current brawl of politics.
A brisk account of the controversies that first divided the heroes of the Revolution..
Compelling.
The author writes with a sharp and absorbing style, turning what could be a fairly dry topic into a highly readable tale worthy of a cable miniseries with backstabbing characters, high drama, shady deals, and huge egos all clashing to determine the course of the new country. For anyone who thinks that gridlock and partisan machinations are a recent development, this book will quickly lay those misconceptions to rest..
