Washington's farewell : the founding father's warning to future generations /
The Farewell was published at the end of Washington's second term. It was reprinted in newspapers across the country. The President began the letter during his first term intending to retire but was persuaded by Hamilton and Jefferson to run for a second. By the end of that term, he was the obj...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Section I: The crisis of creation
- The first farewell
- Washington at home
- A reluctant president
- The seeds of the two-party system
- The death of the one-term dream
- Second-term blues
- Hating George Washington
- A time of riots and insurrection
- Washington's squabbling surrogate sons
- A farewell "importantly and lastingly useful"
- Section II: Washington's pillars of liberty
- National unity: join or die
- Political moderation: the fight against factions
- Final discipline: debt and taxes
- Virtue and religion: the faith of the first founding father
- Education: "public opinion should be enlightened"
- A foreign policy of independence: peace through strength
- Section III: The afterlife of the idea
- Unshackled at the end
- Washington wins the war of ideas
- A farewell fraud?
- The farewell for sale
- Washington is blue and gray
- World wars and the temptation of empire
- Ike's inspiration
- The farewell echoes on.