The man of the people : political dissent and the making of the American presidency / by Green, Nathaniel C.

Table of Contents: “…Ratification and the promise of "the man of the people" -- Washington's ascent and the people's assent -- Claiming the presidency for the people in the Jay Treaty controversy -- Jefferson's "want of firmness" -- John Adams's presidency and the moral fate of the nation -- President Jefferson's nation of dissenters -- To bear arms at the president's call -- A violent man for a violent nation.…”
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Revolutionary medicine : the Founding Fathers and mothers in sickness and in health / by Abrams, Jeanne E., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : health and medicine in the era of America's founders -- George and Martha Washington : health, illness, and the First Family -- Benjamin Franklin : a founding father of American medicine -- Abigail and John Adams : partners in sickness and health -- Thomas Jefferson : advocate for healthy living -- Thomas Jefferson : the health of the nation -- Epilogue : evolutionary medicine.…”
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Inventing the job of president leadership style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson / by Greenstein, Fred I.

Table of Contents: “…The presidential difference in the early republic -- The foundational presidency of George Washington -- John Adams : absentee chief executive -- Thomas Jefferson and the art of governance -- The anticlimactic presidency of James Madison -- The political competence of James Monroe -- The political incompetence of John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson : force of nature -- Presidents, leadership qualities, and political development.…”
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Inventing the job of president : leadership style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson / by Greenstein, Fred I.

Table of Contents: “…The presidential difference in the early republic -- The foundational presidency of George Washington -- John Adams : absentee chief executive -- Thomas Jefferson and the art of governance -- The anticlimactic presidency of James Madison -- The political competence of James Monroe -- The political incompetence of John Quincy Adams -- Andrew Jackson : force of nature -- Presidents, leadership qualities, and political development.…”
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"Huzza!" : toasting a new nation, 1760-1815 / by Symington, Timothy, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The "double curse" of John Adams, 1798-1800…”
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Imagining the Cape Colony : history, literature, and the South African nation / by Johnson, David, 1962 May 20-

Table of Contents: “…Remembering the Khoikhoi victory over Dom Francisco de Almeida at the Cape in 1510 : Luís de Camões and Robert Southey -- French representations of the Cape 'Hottentots' : Jean Tavernier, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and François Levaillant -- The Scottish enlightenment and colonial governance : Adam Smith, John Bruce and Lady Anne Barnard -- African land for the American empire : John Adams, Benjamin Stout and Robert Semple -- Historical and literary reiterations of Dutch settler Republicanism -- Literature and Cape slavery -- History and the Griqua nation : Andries Waterboer and Hendrick Hendricks.…”
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The expanding blaze : how the American Revolution ignited the world, 1775-1848 / by Israel, Jonathan I. 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Black emancipation: confronting slavery in the new republic -- Expropriating the Native Americans -- Whites dispossessed -- Canada: an ideological conflict -- John Adams's "American revolution" -- Jefferson's French revolution -- A tragic case: the Irish Revolution (1775-98) -- America's "conservative turn": the emerging "party system" in the 1790s -- America and the Haitian revolution -- Louisiana and the Principles of '76 -- A revolutionary era: Napoleon, Spain, and the Americas (1808-15) -- Reaction, radicalism, and Américanisme under "the Restoration" (1814-30) -- The Greek revolution (1770-1830) -- The Freedom-fighters of the 1830s -- The revolutions of 1848: Democratic Republicanism versus Socialism -- American reaction (1848-52) -- Conclusion: "Exceptionalism," populism, and the radical Enlightenment's demise.…”

The expanding blaze : how the American Revolution ignited the world, 1775-1848 / by Israel, Jonathan, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Black emancipation: confronting slavery in the new republic -- Expropriating the Native Americans -- Whites dispossessed -- Canada: an ideological conflict -- John Adams's "American revolution" -- Jefferson's French revolution -- A tragic case: the Irish Revolution (1775-98) -- America's "conservative turn": the emerging "party system" in the 1790s -- America and the Haitian revolution -- Louisiana and the Principles of '76 -- A revolutionary era: Napoleon, Spain, and the Americas (1808-15) -- Reaction, radicalism, and Américanisme under "the Restoration" (1814-30) -- The Greek revolution (1770-1830) -- The Freedom-fighters of the 1830s -- The revolutions of 1848: Democratic Republicanism versus Socialism -- American reaction (1848-52) -- Conclusion: "Exceptionalism," populism, and the radical Enlightenment's demise.…”
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American travelers on the Nile : early US visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839 / by Oliver, Andrew, Jr., 1936-

Table of Contents: “…Patterson in 1834; The Constitution, the United States, the John Adams, and the Shark in 1836; The Constitution, Jesse D. …”
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