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The man of the people : political dissent and the making of the American presidency /
"The office of the presidency stands at the center of a contentious, and even violent, debate over what it means to be an American. Defying nearly every prediction, Donald Trump won the 2016 election by appealing to a vaguely-defined, "great" American past, boasting he would reinvigor...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2020]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Ratification and the promise of "the man of the people"
- Washington's ascent and the people's assent
- Claiming the presidency for the people in the Jay Treaty controversy
- Jefferson's "want of firmness"
- John Adams's presidency and the moral fate of the nation
- President Jefferson's nation of dissenters
- To bear arms at the president's call
- A violent man for a violent nation.