The shackles of power : three Jeffersonian decades / John Dos Passos.

By:

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 [author.]

Material type:

TextSeries: Mainstream of America seriesPublisher: Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966Edition: First editionDescription: 426 pages : maps (on lining papers) ; 24 cmContent type:

text

ISBN:

0385022611
9780385022613

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Shackles of power.LOC classification:

E338 D74

Available additional physical forms:

Also issued online.

Contents:

A reception at the president's house -- The arch traitor Burr -- The labor and contentions of public life -- Confrontation at Richmond -- All the odious passions -- From the groves of Monticello -- The sevenfold wonders of the time -- The easy work of peace -- The more general diffusion of knowledge -- Of democracy in America.

Summary: An historical narrative of the early United States as dominated and influenced by Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, and John Quincy Adams. Pictures the first quarter of the 19th century as abounding in both patriots and scoundrels-enough to make for fascinating reading.

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	Books	Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College General stacks		Reference		E338 D74 (Browse shelf(Opens below))				c.1	Available			2024-4163

"Reading on the Jeffersonian era": pages 409-412.

An historical narrative of the early United States as dominated and influenced by Jefferson, Monroe, Madison, and John Quincy Adams. Pictures the first quarter of the 19th century as abounding in both patriots and scoundrels-enough to make for fascinating reading.

Also issued online.

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