7 books
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4 voters
1801
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If Jefferson's leadership is to be set apart from others similarly situated later on, it should not be because he was inclined to finesse a frontal assault on the old [Federalist] governmental establishment, but because he transformed national politics so thoroughly without being forced into any make-or-break confrontation with it. Jefferson pursued the reconstruction of American government and politics relentlessly, and the regime he created in the end was profoundly different from the one he d
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― The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton
― The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton