The Age of Federalism The Early American Republic 1788-1800 by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick American Revolution book gifts

This is a near fine (almost like new) hardcover with dust jacket. 1993 Oxford University Press. This copy is crisp and clean inside and out. The pages are crisp, clean and free of markings. The binding is tight and straight. Navy hardcover boards under jacket are very good to like new with only one smudge on front hardcover boards bottom corner. The dust jacket is clean and shiny with only a hint of shelf wear. 925 pages including index.

Written by esteemed historians Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick, this book gives us a reflective, informed analytical survey of an extraordinary time in American history. Ranging over a variety of concerns - political, cultural, economic, diplomatic, military - the authors keep in mind not only the problems the new nation faced but also the particular individuals who tried to solve them. Central figures like Washington and Jefferson, Talleyrand and Napoleon are focused along with lesser known ones like George Hammond,Britains minister to America, a pre-Chief Justice version of John Marshall and others. They weave these profiles into an analysis of the major controversies of the time in an effort to recover something that is now two centuries out of reach - the psychology of a generation of nation builders. The moral urgency of the issues and the bitterness of the disagreements over them, reflect a fearful sense that the future hung on the particular way any one of them was settled. For example, we see how the fight over Hamilton's Treasury system widened an ideological gulf between Hamilton and Madison and Jefferson and how the passions led to what everyone professed to deplore; the formation of political parties. We get a fresh reading of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, the Adams presidency, the XYZ Affair, and much more. This is a comprehensive and exhaustive study sure to be in any historians library.

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