Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics

by H W Brands and H.W. Brands

Book Overview

From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385549245
• ISBN13: 9780385549240
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"