Presidents above party : the first American presidency, 1789-1829

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Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Unsettledness of 1789
PART I: Ideas of Leadership in Anglo-America, 1600–1789
	1. Morality, Commerce, and Leadership in Seventeenth-Century England
		Puritan Ideas of Leadership
		John Winthrop, Nehemias Americanus
		John Dryden: "Kings are the public pillars of the State"
		The Growth of the Commercial Ethic
	2. Ancients and Moderns in the Age of Pope and Swift
		Mandeville, Defoe, and "Modernity"
		Walpole and Pope
		Swift's Lilliputian England
		The Eminence of Walpole's Critics
	3. The Opposition Whigs and Bolingbroke
		"Oppositionist" Crosscurrents, 1720–1742
		The Idea of a Patriot King
		Legacy for Leadership in America
	4. Executive Power in the Era of the American Revolution
		William Pitt and George III: Ambiguous Models
		American Antimonarchism and the Spirit of 1776
		The Colonial Governorship
		Virtue and Leadership in New Constitutions
PART II: The American Presidency, 1789–1837
	5. The Federalist Presidents
		George Washington
		John Adams
	6. The First Republican Chief Magistrates
		Thomas Jefferson
		James Madison
	7. The Ebb of the Republican Presidency
		James Monroe
		John Quincy Adams: Public Servant
		The Paradoxical President
	8. The Jacksonians and Leadership through Party
		Martin Van Buren and the New Political Party
		Jacksonian Partisanship
		The Adamses and the "Degradation of the Democratic Dogma"
		Defoe, Tocqueville, and J. S. Mill
PART III: Republican Dilemmas: Virtue and Commerce, Leadership and Party
	9. Jefferson, Franklin, and the Commonness of Virtue
		Jefferson and the Problem of Virtue in a Republic
		Republican Leadership
		Franklin, Commerce, and Virtue
		Antiliberalism among the Common People of America
	10. Alexander Hamilton and the Ideas of Leadership and Party
		Commerce and National Greatness
		Classical Ideas of Leadership
		Executive Transcendence of Faction
		Anglo-American Conceptions of Party, 1770–1801
		Hamiltonian Leadership: Intention and Party
	11. Executive Power and the Nonpartisan Ideal
		Executive Opportunities, 1789
		Cultural Tensions and the Presidency
		Neither "Popular" nor "Partisan" Leadership
		Nonpartisanship and the Modern Presidency
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