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Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
“Now he belongs to the ages.”
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Because, in Hamilton's words, they lack power over either the "sword or the purse," their ability to produce political and social change is limited. In contrast to the first view,
Gerald N. Rosenberg • The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
We are accustomed to viewing the founding era as endowed with an inexhaustible supply of superlatively able men available for public service. But once the most gifted public servants—Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, Madison, and Jay—were already accounted for, Washington, like many later presidents, had a fiendishly hard time finding replacements for hi
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