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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... issue was . ' This momentous question , ' wrote the ageing Jefferson , ' like a fire - bell in the night , awakened and filled me with terror . I considered it at once as the knell of the Union . ' For the time being , a compromise was ...
... issue was . ' This momentous question , ' wrote the ageing Jefferson , ' like a fire - bell in the night , awakened and filled me with terror . I considered it at once as the knell of the Union . ' For the time being , a compromise was ...
Page 185
... issue , in his mind , became the simple one of preserving the Union . And on that issue he made war . There is no telling whether he would have made it if he had realized that the South was fighting for an agrarian society against the ...
... issue , in his mind , became the simple one of preserving the Union . And on that issue he made war . There is no telling whether he would have made it if he had realized that the South was fighting for an agrarian society against the ...
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... issue between the two major parties . Through- out the seventies and eighties there were no real issues . Since the withdrawal of Southern leadership , the Democratic Party in the North had for the most part fallen into the hands of the ...
... issue between the two major parties . Through- out the seventies and eighties there were no real issues . Since the withdrawal of Southern leadership , the Democratic Party in the North had for the most part fallen into the hands of the ...
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WASHINGTON | 3 |
JOHN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON | 32 |
MADISON MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 72 |
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