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1 online resource (284 pages)
ISBN:
9781469601250
Serie:
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser
Inhalt:
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, 1720-1742 -- The 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 President -- 8. 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 Greatness.
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ISBN 9780807841792
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780807841792
Sprache:
Englisch
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