Beschreibung:
Lance Banning is professor of history at the University of Kentucky, where he has taught since 1973. He is the author of numerous books and essays on the American founding including The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, Jefferson and Madison: Three Conversations from the Founding, and The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic.
Conceived in Liberty probes the fundamentals of the great dispute among John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and their followers over the sort of country the United States should be. In clear and concise prose, Lance Banning clarifies the foundations of the first great party struggle-and thus of nineteenth-century America.
Introduction Chapter 1: Visions Chapter 2: The First Constructions of the Constitution Chapter 3: The Gentry and the People