Product Description
by Lance Banning (Author)
This revisionary study offers a convincing new interpretation of Jeffersonian Republican thought in the 1790s. Based on extensive research in the newspapers and political pamphlets of the decade as well as the public and private writings of party leaders, it traces the development of party ideology and examines the relationship of ideology to party growth and actions.
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This revisionary study offers a convincing new interpretation of Jeffersonian Republican thought in the 1970's. Based on extensive research in the newspapers and political pamphlets of the decade as well as the public and private writings of party leaders, it traces the development of party ideology and examines the relationship of ideology to party growth and actions.
Author Biography
The late Lance Banning was Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. His other books include The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic, also from Cornell, and Jefferson and Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding.
