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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... question of European intervention to restore the lost territories to Spain . It was as a result of this last threat that the Monroe Doctrine was evolved . This was rightly named after the President who sponsored it and who accepted the ...
... question of European intervention to restore the lost territories to Spain . It was as a result of this last threat that the Monroe Doctrine was evolved . This was rightly named after the President who sponsored it and who accepted the ...
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... question forever out of politics ; yet the question had never before been so emphatically ' in ' politics as during the years 1856 and 1857. The ill - fated Kansas - Nebraska Act had led to a small civil war in Kansas , be- tween ...
... question forever out of politics ; yet the question had never before been so emphatically ' in ' politics as during the years 1856 and 1857. The ill - fated Kansas - Nebraska Act had led to a small civil war in Kansas , be- tween ...
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... question . How much of this ' ere critter does a man have to drink to remain in full fellership in this church ? ' Grant might , in such a world , have found a colonel who paid no attention to his drinking ; but in fact he found one who ...
... question . How much of this ' ere critter does a man have to drink to remain in full fellership in this church ? ' Grant might , in such a world , have found a colonel who paid no attention to his drinking ; but in fact he found one who ...
Contents
WASHINGTON | 3 |
JOHN ADAMS AND JEFFERSON | 32 |
MADISON MONROE AND JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | 72 |
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