When Thomas Jefferson Took The Oath Of Office For The Presidency In 1801, The United States Had Just Passed Through Twelve Critical Years, Years Dominated By Some Of The Towering Figures Of Our History And By The Challenge Of Having To Do Everything For The First Time Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, And Jefferson Himself Each Had A Share In Setting The Nation S Important Precedents, In Organizing The Public Finances, And In Attempting Though With Minimal Success To Compel Respect For The American Republic From The Powers Of Europe The Historical Era Bounded By Those First Years Is Brilliantly Represented In The Age Of Federalism Written By Esteemed Historians Stanley Elkins And Eric McKitrick, The Age Of Federalism Gives Us A Reflective, Deeply Informed Analytical Survey Of This Extraordinary Period Ranging Over The Widest Variety Of Concerns Political, Cultural, Economic, Diplomatic, Military The Authors Keep In View Not Only The Problems The New Nation Faced But Also The Particular Individuals Who Tried, With Mixed Results, To Solve Them They Intersperse Their Account With Subtly Perceptive And Sometimes Delightful Character Sketches, Not Only Of The Great Central Figures Washington And Jefferson, Talleyrand And Napoleon Bonaparte But Also Of Various Lesser Ones, Such As George Hammond, Britain S Frustrated Minister To The United States, James McHenry, Adams S Hapless Secretary Of War, A Pre Chief Justice Version Of John Marshall, And Others They Weave These Lively Profiles Into An Analysis Of The Major Controversies Of The Time In An Effort To Recover Something That Is Now Two Centuries Out Of Reach, The Psychology Of A Generation Of Nation Builders, Not Allof It Attractive The Moral Urgency Of These Issues, And The Bitterness Of The Disagreements Over Them, Reflected A Fearful Sense That The Entire Future Hung On The Particular Way Any One Of Them Was Settled We Thus See, For Example, How The Fight Over Hamilton S Treasury Syste
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- Paperback
- 944 pages
- The Age of Federalism
- Stanley Elkins
- English
- 26 September 2017 Stanley Elkins
- 019509381X
Look in almost any grade school American History textbook and you ll find, highlighted in bold, the term the Revolution of 1800, referring to the fourth U.S Presidential election In these hypothetical textbooks, you ll find an explanation referring to the electoral victory of Thomas Jefferson over John Adams, and how the peaceful transition between two opposing parties demonstrated the strength of the new American democratic tradition This isn t false, the peaceful transition between the Ada Look in almost any grade school American History textbook and you ll find, highlighted in bold, the t...
Superb Crisply organized and elegantly, indeed wittily, written The Age of Federalism is, to be sure, an old fashioned blow by blow political history but it s a splendid one, enriched with intriguing disquisitions on social and geopolitical context The thesis is straightforward Elkins and McKitrick believe that the struggle between Federalists and Republicans in the 1790s was a version of the old Court Country rivalry of eighteenth century England The Federalists, they argue, were not so Superb Crisply organized and elegantly, indeed wittily, written The Age of Federalism is, to be sure, an old fashioned blow by blow political history but it s a splen...
This book is a beast There is really no other way to say it It took me forever to finish Not because it was poorly written or boring, quite the opposite in fact I was continuously impressed by the amazing quality of the writing and the fact that the information imparted was incredibly interesting Fascinating vignette after fascinating vignette, I truly enjoyed reading this book Don t be daunted by the 750 pages of writing with an additional several hundred of notes , this is the type of b This book is a beast There is really no other way to say it It took me forever to finish Not because it was poorly written or boring, quite ...
A very dense work, definitely for the very serious history reader A complete graduate level course on the first decade or so of the Republic It does expect you to know what it is talking about before reading it, no easy outlines of history here But, if you can dig through it you will know a lot about how this country got off the ground Definitly not for everyone, certainly not light reading, butthan worth it if you can do it Shows the ...
I understand that The Age of Federalism began as part of The Oxford History of the United States, which certainly explains its mammoth size and detailed, often ponderous analytical style Granted, it doesn t reach the cultural sweep of that series best volumes like its ultimate replacement, Gordon S Wood s Empire of Liberty indeed, the early chapters bog down in excessive detail of party politics and ideological debates between early American leaders Yet the book eventually takes flight, s I understand that The Age of Federalism began as part of The Oxford History of the United States, which certainly explains its mammoth size and detailed, often ponderous analytical style Granted, it doesn t reach the cultural sweep of that series best volumes like its ultimate replacement, Gordon S Wood s Empire of Liberty indeed, the early chapters bog ...
Though a little dry, this is by far the most comprehensive book I have read about the political history of the Washington and Adams administrations Instead of focusing only on the well known principals, local political trends, social pressures, and international events are brought together to give a thorough understanding of the era The authors seem to have sought to create a work that can stand beside Adams s history of the Jefferson and Madison administ...
This is a thoroughly excellent history of the early American republic that at its best brings a remarkable clarity to complex political and economic issues, particularly the working out of early forms and administrative procedures, the aims of Hamilton s economic policies, and the political realities under which treaties with England and France were reached It is a somewhat old fashioned history objectivist in tone and unselfconsciously concerned with a only a small political elite even in a This is a thoroughly excellent history of the early American republic that at its best brings a remarkable clarity to complex political and economic issues, particularly the working out of early forms and administrative procedures, the aims of Hamilton s economic policies, and the political reali...
I absolutely loved this book Elkins and McKitrick do a wonderful job putting the reader in the heady and exciting days of our nation s birth, when both possibilities and pitfalls seemed endless This book is engaging and enjoyable it s a thousand pages, but I never found myself wishing it was shorter If anything, I would like to find similarly detailed accounts of every twelve year period in American history But this is the big time, the big show, the time when America was new, when the tone I absolutely loved this book Elkins and McKitrick do a wonderful job putting the reader in the heady and exciting days of our nation s birth, when both possibilities and pitfalls seemed endless This book is engaging and enjoyable it s a thousand pages, but I never found myself wishing it was shorter If anything, I would like to find similarly detailed accounts of every twelve year period in American history But this is the big time, the big show, the time when America was new, when the tone of all to follow was to be established, and the men involved knew it This book has two overarching themes the struggle to establish legitimacy for the new nation, and the painful birth of political parties The story of the first theme can almost be summed up in two words George Washington Perhaps never has a man been so fit for a moment a...
All I can say is whew I must admit it was tough going not a broad history but a very narrow detailed one as it covers in great detail the political life of only 12 years of time in the early Republic One of the most interesting things for me in reading it was the authors critical view of some of the Founding Fathers men who areoften than not subjects of hagiographic readings of their lives They really really dislike Jefferson and think Adams ridiculous I imagine that the book wou All I can say is whew I must admit it was tough going not a broad history but a very narrow detailed one as it covers in great detail the political life of only 12 ye...
Wow I m almost as impressed with myself for finishing this behemoth as I am with the thing itself Make no mistake this is some dense stuff the small, single spaced print means it s much longer than advertised , but just fascinating I used to fancy myself reasonably well informed regarding early American history, but after reading this I know that wasn t true it s truer now There s lots of great stuff here, including fascinating portraits of, Hamilton, Madison, and others, and great cover Wow I m almost ...