The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

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Introduction The founding fathers, an age of realism Thomas Jefferson, the aristocrat as democrat Andrew Jackson & the rise of liberal capitalism John C. Calhoun, the Marx of the master class Abraham Lincoln & the self-made myth Wendell Phillips, the patrician as agitator The spoilsmen, an age of cynicism William Jennings Bryan, the democrat as revivalist Theodore Roosevelt, the conservative as progressive Woodrow Wilson, the conservative as liberal Herbert Hoover & the crisis of American individualism Franklin D. Roosevelt, the patrician as opportunist Acknowledgments Bibliographical Essay Index