Washington's Farewell : the Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
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- ISBN: 9781476746463
- ISBN: 147674646X
- ISBN: 9781476746470
- ISBN: 1476746478
- ISBN: 9781476746487
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x, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm - Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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