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| International Standard Book Number |
0691210233 |
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(hardback) |
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9780691210230 |
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(hardback) |
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DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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DLC |
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SKYRV |
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MiTN |
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pcc |
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| Classification number |
E302.1 |
| Item number |
R376 2021 |
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| Classification number |
973.3092/2 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Rasmussen, Dennis C. |
| Fuller form of name |
(Dennis Carl), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1978- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Fears of a setting sun : |
| Remainder of title |
the disillusionment of America's Founders / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Dennis C. Rasmussen. |
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| Title proper/short title |
Disillusionment of America's Founders. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Princeton : |
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Princeton University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
[2021] |
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2103. |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Princeton : |
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Princeton University Press, |
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[2021] |
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288 pages ; |
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25 cm. |
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text |
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unmediated |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Formatted contents note |
Prologue: a rising or a setting sun -- Washington. 1. The demon of a party spirit ; 2. Farewell to all that ; 3. Set up a broomstick -- Hamilton. 4. No man's ideas ; 5. Struggling to add energy ; 6. The fruit and the worthless fabric -- Adams. 7. Such selfishness and littleness ; 8. His rotundity ; 9. The brightest or the blackest page -- Jefferson. 10. Weathering the storm ; 11. The knell of the Union ; 12. The consolidation or the dissolution of the States -- Interlude, the other Founders. 13. No cheering prospect -- Madison. 14. Far from desponding ; 15. Grounds for hope -- Epilogue: a very great secret. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Whatever sense of hope the Founder Fathers may have felt at the new government's birth, almost none of them carried that optimism to their graves. Franklin survived to see the Constitution in action for only a single year, but most of the founders who lived into the nineteenth century came to feel deep anxiety, disappointment, and even despair about the government and the nation that they had helped to create. Indeed, by the end of their lives many of the founders judged the Constitution that we now venerate to be an utter failure that was unlikely to last beyond their own generation. This book tells the story of their disillusionment. The book focuses principally on four of the preeminent figures of the period (1787): George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. These four lost their faith in the American experiment at different times and for different reasons, and each has his own unique story. As Rasmussen shows in a series of three chapters on each figure, Washington became disillusioned above all because of the rise of parties and partisanship, Hamilton because he felt that the federal government was not sufficiently vigorous or energetic, Adams because he believed that the American people lacked the requisite civic virtue for republican government, and Jefferson because of sectional divisions brought on (as he saw it) by Northern attempts to restrict slavery and consolidate power in the federal government. Washington, Hamilton, Adams, and Jefferson were the most prominent of the founders who grew disappointed in what America became, but they were certainly not the only ones. In a final chapter Rasmussen shows that most of the other leading founders-including figures such as Samuel Adams, John Jay, James Monroe, and Thomas Paine-fell in the same camp. The most notable founder who did not come to despair for his country was the one who outlived them all, James Madison. Madison did harbor some real worries but a final chapter also explores why Madison largely kept the republican faith when so many of his compatriots did not"-- |
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Provided by publisher. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Adams, John, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1735-1826. |
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| Personal name |
Hamilton, Alexander, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1757-1804. |
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| Personal name |
Jefferson, Thomas, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1743-1826. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Founding Fathers of the United States. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision |
1783-1809. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision |
1809-1817. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
Politics and government |
| Chronological subdivision |
1817-1825. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Washington, George, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1732-1799. |
| 776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
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| Relationship information |
Online version: |
| Main entry heading |
Rasmussen, Dennis C., 1978- |
| Title |
Fears of a setting sun |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication |
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021] |
| International Standard Book Number |
9780691211060 |
| Record control number |
(DLC) 2020032383. |