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The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840

By Richard Hofstadter

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1970
ISBN
0520017544, 9780520017542
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21938476 bytes)
Series
Jefferson Memorial Lecture Series
Pages
304\303
Time added
2016-10-29 14:41:07
United States;African Americans;Civil War;Colonial

Description

This work traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection of a party and hesitantly began to embrace a party system. In the author's words, "The emergence of legitimate party opposition and of a theory of politics that accepted it was something new in the history of the world; it required a bold new act of understanding on the part of its contemporaries and it still requires study on our part." Professor Hofstadter's analysis of the idea of party and the development of legitimate opposition offers fresh insights into the political crisis of 1797-1801, on the thought of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, and other leading figures, and on the beginnings of modern democratic politics.

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