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Fears of a setting sun : the disillusionment of America's Founders /

"Whatever sense of hope the Founder Fathers may have felt at the new government's birth, almost none of them carried that optimism to their graves. Franklin survived to see the Constitution in action for only a single year, but most of the founders who lived into the nineteenth century cam...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rasmussen, Dennis C. (Dennis Carl), 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
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100 1 |a Rasmussen, Dennis C.  |q (Dennis Carl),  |d 1978-  |e author. 
245 1 0 |a Fears of a setting sun :  |b the disillusionment of America's Founders /  |c Dennis C. Rasmussen. 
246 3 0 |a Disillusionment of America's Founders 
264 1 |a Princeton :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c [2021] 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-265) and index. 
520 |a "Whatever sense of hope the Founder Fathers may have felt at the new government's birth, almost none of them carried that optimism to their graves. Franklin survived to see the Constitution in action for only a single year, but most of the founders who lived into the nineteenth century came to feel deep anxiety, disappointment, and even despair about the government and the nation that they had helped to create. Indeed, by the end of their lives many of the founders judged the Constitution that we now venerate to be an utter failure that was unlikely to last beyond their own generation. This book tells the story of their disillusionment. The book focuses principally on four of the preeminent figures of the period (1787): George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. These four lost their faith in the American experiment at different times and for different reasons, and each has his own unique story. As Rasmussen shows in a series of three chapters on each figure, Washington became disillusioned above all because of the rise of parties and partisanship, Hamilton because he felt that the federal government was not sufficiently vigorous or energetic, Adams because he believed that the American people lacked the requisite civic virtue for republican government, and Jefferson because of sectional divisions brought on (as he saw it) by Northern attempts to restrict slavery and consolidate power in the federal government. Washington, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson were the most prominent of the founders who grew disappointed in what America became, but they were certainly not the only ones. In a final chapter Rasmussen shows that most of the other leading founders-including figures such as Samuel Adams, John Jay, James Monroe, and Thomas Paine-fell in the same camp. The most notable founder who did not come to despair for his country was the one who outlived them all, James Madison. Madison did harbor some real worries but a final chapter also explores why Madison largely kept the republican faith when so many of his compatriots did not"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Prologue. A Rising or a Setting Sun --  |t Washington --  |t 1. The Demon of Party Spirit --  |t 2. Farewell to All That --  |t 3. Set Up a Broomstick --  |t Hamilton --  |t 4. No Man's Ideas --  |t 5. Struggling to Add Energy --  |t 6. The Frail and Worthless Fabric --  |t Adams --  |t 7. Such Selfishness and Littleness --  |t 8. His Rotundity --  |t 9. The Brightest or the Blackest Page --  |t Jefferson --  |t 10. Weathering the Storm --  |t 11. The Knell of the Union --  |t 12. A Consolidation or Dissolution of the States --  |t Interlude. The Other Founders --  |t 13. No Cheering Prospect --  |t Madison --  |t 14. Far from Desponding --  |t 15. Grounds for Hope --  |t Epilogue. A Very Great Secret --  |t Notes --  |t Index 
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600 1 0 |a Hamilton, Alexander,  |d 1757-1804. 
600 1 0 |a Adams, John,  |d 1735-1826. 
600 1 0 |a Jefferson, Thomas,  |d 1743-1826. 
600 1 0 |a Washington, George,  |d 1732-1799. 
600 1 1 |a Jefferson, Thomas,  |d 1743-1826. 
600 1 1 |a Adams, John,  |d 1735-1826. 
600 1 1 |a Hamilton, Alexander,  |d 1757-1804. 
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600 1 7 |a Jefferson, Thomas,  |d 1743-1826  |2 fast 
650 0 |a Founding Fathers of the United States. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Politics and government  |y 1783-1809. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Politics and government  |y 1809-1817. 
651 0 |a United States  |x Politics and government  |y 1817-1825. 
650 6 |a Pères fondateurs des États-Unis. 
651 6 |a États-Unis  |x Politique et gouvernement  |y 1783-1809. 
651 6 |a États-Unis  |x Politique et gouvernement  |y 1809-1817. 
651 6 |a États-Unis  |x Politique et gouvernement  |y 1817-1825. 
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653 |a Aaron Burr. 
653 |a Benjamin Franklin. 
653 |a Congress. 
653 |a Declaration of Independence. 
653 |a Federalist. 
653 |a Federalists. 
653 |a House. 
653 |a John Marshall. 
653 |a Lafayette. 
653 |a Missouri. 
653 |a Republican. 
653 |a Republicans. 
653 |a Senate. 
653 |a Supreme Court. 
653 |a Washington's Farewell Address. 
653 |a acts. 
653 |a alien. 
653 |a anti Federalists. 
653 |a constitutional convention. 
653 |a constitutional crisis. 
653 |a crisis. 
653 |a democracy. 
653 |a democratic. 
653 |a executive. 
653 |a failure. 
653 |a history of American political crises. 
653 |a judiciary. 
653 |a nullification. 
653 |a optimism. 
653 |a parties. 
653 |a presidency. 
653 |a president. 
653 |a sedition. 
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