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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... political leadership soon followed . The Virginia group- Washington , Jefferson , Madison , Marshall , John Randolph , Monroe - were succeeded by such men as Cal- houn and Hayne and Crawford , from South Carolina and Georgia . Still ...
... political leadership soon followed . The Virginia group- Washington , Jefferson , Madison , Marshall , John Randolph , Monroe - were succeeded by such men as Cal- houn and Hayne and Crawford , from South Carolina and Georgia . Still ...
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... Politicians had tacitly given it up , and Grant's Administration marked the avowal . Nine - tenths of men's political energies must henceforth be wasted on expedients to piece out - to patch - or , in vulgar language , to tinker - the ...
... Politicians had tacitly given it up , and Grant's Administration marked the avowal . Nine - tenths of men's political energies must henceforth be wasted on expedients to piece out - to patch - or , in vulgar language , to tinker - the ...
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... political opinions , 223 ; service in the Civil War , 224 ; protests against the trial of Lee , 224 , 225 ; in the hands of the Radicals , 225 ; elected President in 1868 by the Negro vote , 225 ; his two terms , 225 , 226 ; loses ...
... political opinions , 223 ; service in the Civil War , 224 ; protests against the trial of Lee , 224 , 225 ; in the hands of the Radicals , 225 ; elected President in 1868 by the Negro vote , 225 ; his two terms , 225 , 226 ; loses ...
Contents
WASHINGTON | 3 |
JOHN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON | 32 |
MADISON MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 72 |
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