From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.
Founding Partisans is a powerful reminder that fierce partisanship is a problem as old as the republic, one we\'ve survived time and time again..
Still, peaceful transfers of power continued, and the nascent country made its way toward global dominance, against all odds.
The country\'s first years unfolded in a contentious spiral of ugly elections and blatant violations of the Constitution.
John Adams, however, our second president, was an avowed Federalist, and very much in the scrum.
The two factions wrestled as George Washington tried to remain above the fray.
Thomas Jefferson and the opposition organized as the Antifederalists, the precursor to the Republicans.
The first party, the Federalists, formed around Alexander Hamilton and his efforts to overthrow the Articles of Confederation.
Yet parties emerged even before the Constitution was ratified, and they took firmer root in the following decade.
They had suffered the consequences of partisan Politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America.
To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues.
Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the Birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be.
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From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H
