America afire : Jefferson, Adams, and the first contested election /
A study of former allies Adams and Jefferson and of the Federalist versus Republican parties leading up to the first voluntary turning over of the Presidency from one political enemy to another assuring the success of the seventeen year old experiment of American self-government.
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New York, NY :
Perennial,
2001, ©2000.
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| Edition: | 1st Perennial ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : Washington, D.C., Inauguration Day, 1801
- pt. 1 Discords of an unfinished nation : Philadelphia, summer 1787
- The nation in 1790.
- pt. 2 Personalities, places, and domestic discord, 1789-1794 : Washington's hopeful first term
- The curse of faction
- Mr. Burr launches a machine
- Wedges of sectionalism.
- pt. 3 War abroad, politics at home, 1793-1796 : Terror, turmoil, and Citizen Genet
- John Jay's divisive treaty, 1794-1795
- Jefferson and Adam's first round, 1796.
- pt. 4 Toward disunion, 1797-1800 : X, Y, Z, and the French connection, 1798
- Gagging the press, 1798.
- pt. 5 Campaign and conscience, 1800-1801 : The climax and the drawn battle of 1800
- The crossroads of February 1801
- The Republican president
- Epilogue : Aftermath and echoes.