Lindsay M. Chervinsky

Making the Presidency (eBook, PDF)

John Adams and the Precedents That Forged the Republic

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Making the Presidency argues that Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic by establishing the peaceful transition of power and the integrity of the elections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197653852
• Artikelnr.: 72255798

Autorenporträt

Lindsay M. Chervinsky is Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library. She is the author of award-winning The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution and the co-editor of Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Dr. Chervinsky was a historian at the White House Historical Association. She regularly writes for public audiences in publications including the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, USA Today, CNN.com, Washington Monthly, and the Washington Post and is frequent presidential commentator on national TV and radio. Chervinsky lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

* A Note on Language Introduction
* Chapter One: An Address to the People of the United States
* Chapter Two: Washington Recedes
* Chapter Three: The Die Is Cast
* Chapter Four: The "Sublimest Thing" Ever Exhibited in America
* Chapter Five: A Scene of Ambition
* Chapter Six: A Dishonorable Infidelity
* Chapter Seven: Expect Nothing but the Most Unqualified Injustice
* Chapter Eight: Not a Sixpence!
* Chapter Nine: Poured in from All Quarters
* Chapter Ten: Massacre the Inhabitants
* Chapter Eleven: Decisive Measures
* Chapter Twelve: The "Majic" of His Name
* Chapter Thirteen: The Tocsin of Insurrection
* Chapter Fourteen: All Evidence That They Are Sincere
* Chapter Fifteen: Solely the President's Act
* Chapter Sixteen: Struck by a Thunderbolt
* Chapter Seventeen: The Spirit in the City is Very High
* Chapter Eighteen: A Paltry Insurrection
* Chapter Nineteen: The Air of Abdication
* Chapter Twenty: The Apple of Discord to the Federalists
* Chapter Twenty-One: The Late President of the United States, Is No
More!
* Chapter Twenty-Two: Their Gag in My Mouth
* Chapter Twenty-Three: Hocus-Pocus Maneuvers
* Chapter Twenty-Four: A Change in the Administration
* Chapter Twenty-Five: The Seat of Government
* Chapter Twenty-Six: Death or Liberty
* Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Unqualified Conviction of His Unfitness for
the Station
* Chapter Twenty-Eight: Storms of a New Character
* Chapter Twenty-Nine: Nothing but a Forest and Woods Along the Way
* Chapter Thirty: The Prey of Anarchy and Faction
* Chapter Thirty-One: The New Order of Things Begins
* Epilogue: May None but Honest and Wise Men Acknowledgments
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index