The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States 1780-1840 by Richard Hofstadter

The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States 1780-1840

Richard Hofstadter

304 pages • first pub 1969 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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This work traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection of a party and hesitantly began to embrace a party system. In the author's words, "The emergence...

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