The People's Choice, from Washington to Harding: A Study in DemocracyThis work discusses how politics, democracy, and the presidency evolved in the United States from 1789 to 1923. |
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... fact that he had no alternative plan , nothing to put in the place of the one agency that had discouraged ' wild - cat ' banking and the more insane forms of speculation , did not impress them . Neither did ' Jackson was not , like ...
... fact that he had no alternative plan , nothing to put in the place of the one agency that had discouraged ' wild - cat ' banking and the more insane forms of speculation , did not impress them . Neither did ' Jackson was not , like ...
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... fact that Van Buren had been born and brought up in extreme poverty , and was in fact the self - made ' man of the people ' that Harrison was falsely pictured as being , did not prevent his being attacked as an aristocrat , with lordly ...
... fact that Van Buren had been born and brought up in extreme poverty , and was in fact the self - made ' man of the people ' that Harrison was falsely pictured as being , did not prevent his being attacked as an aristocrat , with lordly ...
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... fact that they left behind them some constructive achievements , such as a completed railway or an efficient oil trust is less impressive than the fact that they destroyed the pros perity of American agriculture and treated their own ...
... fact that they left behind them some constructive achievements , such as a completed railway or an efficient oil trust is less impressive than the fact that they destroyed the pros perity of American agriculture and treated their own ...
Contents
WASHINGTON | 3 |
JOHN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON | 32 |
MADISON MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 72 |
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