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  • A Politician Thinking
    Jack N. Rakove
    James Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787–1788 to secure ratification of the U.S. Constitution. As Jack N. Rakove shows in A Politician Thinking, however, those essays do not illustrate the full complexity and vigor of Madison’s thinking. In t...
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  • The Beginnings of National Politics
    Jack N Rakove
    Despite a necessary preoccupation with the Revolutionary struggle, America's Continental Congress succeeded in establishing itself as a governing body with national--and international--authority. How the Congress acquired and maintained this power and how the delegates sought to resolve the complex theoretical problems that arose in forming a federal government are the issu...
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    80,22 €

  • Revolutionaries
    Jack Rakove
    In this remarkable book Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who shaped the idea of an American nation. Each portrait brims with fresh and fascinating insights: Washington as a flawed tactician but expert manager; Jack Laurens as a slave trader’s son who developed a plan to recruit black soldiers; Jefferson as a powerful critic of Europe’s social order...
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    22,86 €