The price of union

The price of union / by Herbert Agar.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Agar, Herbert, 1897-1980
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
Subjects:
Political parties > United States.
United States > Politics and government.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. 1763-1850
  • The Nature of the Revolution: 1763-1788
  • War and Peace: Prelude to a Federation
  • The Constitution, Written and Unwritten
  • The First President
  • The Birth of Parties
  • The Failure of the Federalists
  • Mr. Jefferson and His Methods
  • The Tyranny of Circumstance
  • The Frustration of a Foreign Policy
  • The One-Party Period
  • The President Without a Party
  • Jackson and the New Type of Presidency
  • The Jackson Man in Action
  • The Ruise of the Whigs
  • New Alignments and New Passion: 1844
  • Calhoun and the Meaning of 1850
  • pt. 2. 1850-1909
  • The Parties on the Verge of Failure
  • The Fruits of Executive Weakness, I (1853-1857)
  • The Fruits of Executive Weakness, II (1857-1861)
  • "Preserve, Protect, and Defend"
  • Lincoln and the "War Powers"
  • Congress vs. the President
  • Grant Obeys the Senators
  • "Grantism" and Congressional Policy-Making
  • The Powers of the Presidency Revive
  • Civil Service vs. the Stalwarts
  • Cleveland, Reform, and Laissez-Faire
  • The Old Order Changes
  • Both Parties Sowing the Wind
  • Agrarian vs. Capitalist
  • Hanna, McKinley, and the Transition
  • "I Did Greatly Broaden the ... Executive Power."

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