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19 produkter
Alexander Hamilton
A Biography
Häftad, 1982
382 kr
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The founders of the American republic were ardently concerned with the judgment of posterity. Had they known what a fickle muse Clio would prove to be, they might have been more anxious. The making of myths and legends, complete with a hagiology and demonology, is inherent in the process of …
Novus Ordo Seclorum
Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
Häftad, 1985
431 kr
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This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in more than two decades. Forrest McDonald, widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period, reconstructs the intellectual world of the Founding …
American Presidency
An Intellectual History
Häftad, 1994
476 kr
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This is a provocative essay on the ambiguities and dilemmas of the American presidency. It offers observations on the issues and controversies surrounding high office, questioning what a president does and by what right he or she does it. This book was named one of the Year's Best Books on Politics …
States' Rights and the Union
Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876
Häftad, 2000
431 kr
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Forrest McDonald has long been recognized as one of our most respected and provocative intellectual historians. With this new book, he once again delivers an illuminating meditation on a major theme in American history and politics.Elegantly and accessibly written for a broad readership, McDonald's …
Requiem
Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes
Av Forrest McDonald, Ellen Shapiro
Häftad, 2021
344 kr
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In eleven provocative essays Forrest McDonald and his wife, Ellen Shapiro McDonald, cover a wide range of the intellectual, political, military, and social history of the eighteenth century to present both a picture of the age in which our Constitution was crafted and commentary on developments …
Presidency of George Washington
E-bok, 2024
410 kr
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In this volume, Forrest McDonald admits that George Washington was no executive genius, and notes that a number of his advisers and cabinet members were considerably more important in formulating programs and policies than he was. Nevertheless, he maintains that, but for Washington, the office of …
E Pluribus Unum
The Formation of the American Republic, 1776-1790
Häftad, 1979
210 kr
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Having won independence from England, America faced a new question: Would this be politically one nation, or would it not? E Pluribus Unum is a spirited look at how that question came to be answered. That the American people introduced a governmental system adequate to check the very forces …
We the People
The Economic Origins of the Constitution
Inbunden, 2017
2842 kr
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Charles A. Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of …
We the People
The Economic Origins of the Constitution
E-bok, 2017
977 kr
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Charles A. Bear''s An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard''s radical interpretation …
We the People
The Economic Origins of the Constitution
E-bok, 2017
999 kr
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Charles A. Bear''s An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard''s radical interpretation …
We the People
The Economic Origins of the Constitution
Häftad, 1991
761 kr
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Charles A. Bear's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of …
Empire and Nation
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania; Letters from the Federal Farmer
Av Richard Henry Lee, John Dickinson m. fl.
E-bok, 1999
84 kr
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Two series of letters described as “the wellsprings of nearly all ensuing debate on the limits of governmental power in the United States” address the whole remarkable range of issues provoked by the crisis of British policies in North America out of which a new nation emerged from an overreaching …
American Presidency
An Intellectual History
Inbunden, 1994
682 kr
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In this work, McDonald explores how and why the presidency has evolved into such a complex and powerful institution, unlike any other in the world. Scores of republics have come into existence during the last two centuries and many have adopted constitutions similar to the USA's. But, McDonald …
Recovering the Past
A Historian's Memoir
Inbunden, 2004
665 kr
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Forrest McDonald is a legend in his own time. The NEH's sixteenth Jefferson Lecturer he is one of our most eminent historians and the author of numerous provocative works on the early American republic, the Constitution, and the American presidency. Renowned for his sly wit and iconoclasm, he is …
