A History of the People of the United St

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Cosimo, Inc., 1. 6. 2006. - 660 страница
For the first time in the history of the country the office of President was open to competition. Twice had Washington been chosen by the unanimous vote of the electoral college, and twice inaugurated with the warmest approbation of the whole people. But the times had greatly changed. In 1789 and 1792 every man was for him. In 1796, in every town and city of the land were men who denounced him as an aristocrat, as a monocrat, as an Anglomaniac, and who never mentioned his name without rage in their hearts and curses on their lips. -from "The British Treaty of 1794" A bestseller when it was first published in 1883, this second volume of historian John Bach McMaster's magnum opus is a lively history of the United States that is as entertaining as it is informative. Eventually stretching to eight volumes, McMaster's epic was original in its emphasis on social and economic conditions as deciding factors in shaping a nation's culture: in addition to the words and actions of great men and the outcomes of significant skirmishes and battles, McMaster indulges his obsession with fascinating trivia, from the positively European cleanliness of New England inns to the uncouth rudeness of theatergoers in American playhouses. Volume 2, covering the rise of the South in the immediate postwar period to the embarkation of Lewis and Clark on their legendary expedition, is a compulsively readable account of the early years of the new nation, and covers such intriguing and unlikely topics as how the new nation's postal laws impacted the readership of newspapers, the furious arguments of the federal government's relationship with France, the difficulties in introducing U.S. currency, and more. OF INTERESTTO: readers of American history AUTHOR BIO: American historian JOHN BACH MCMASTER (1852-1932) taught at the Wharton School of Finance and Economy at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, from 1883 to 1919. He also wrote Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters (1887) and A School History of the United States (1897), which became a definitive textbook.

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Demands of the Directory
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Jeffersons Letter to Mazzei
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The Alien Bill
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Bribes wanted
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Debate on slavery
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The Excise Bill passed
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Settlement of Nashville
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Position of America toward Algiers
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Second bill vetoed by the President
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Excitement in New York
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Whiskey in Pennsylvania
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Disgraceful retreat
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Position of PostmasterGeneral
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Signs and tokens regarding the plague
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The Illuminati
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Changes in the postal system
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Fear in regard to speculating
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Washington certain of renomination
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Feasts throughout New England
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The British Minister complains to Jefferson
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LAmbuscade at New York
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Genets version in the Albany Argus
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Federal slurs and jests
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Porcupine sued by the Spanish Minister
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Insurgents send commissioners
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Dread of titled foreigners
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Letters of Franklin
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The adjourned meeting held
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New York Chamber of Commerce declares for the treaty
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Substance of the letter 232
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Seeks Fauchet 234
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Death of Washington
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Origin of keeping Washingtons birthday
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Seven facts for Democrats
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Memorials from Salem Providence etc
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Complaints against the United States
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Le Berceau strikes to the Boston
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Adams a monarchist
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Crowds at Washington
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Abuse of Adams by the Republicans
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The Addressers
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Lyon the first victim of the Sedition Bill
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Letter to Adams and action of the House
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Fourth of July 1798
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CHAPTER XI
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Officers of the navy
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Prizes offered for plans for the Presidents house
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The North Federal 302
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Decatur captures a French privateer
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Abuse of Judge Cuase
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French manners
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Opposition to it
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Dangers and discomforts of coach travel 561583
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Church service
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Restlessness of pioneers 573
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A Kentuc
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Objections to Gallatin
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Action of Captain Bainbridge
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Dislike of Abraham Bishop 398
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Convention of aliens
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A meeting at Philadelphia
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Republican denounced
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