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It is difficult to recapture the apprehension, even paranoia, that gripped the nation's most sober leaders in these early years of the American political experiment. No one was confident that the new republican institutions would survive. There was no clear path to success, and no past record against which to compare the unfolding of events. The emergence of political parties was unexpected and troubling, even to those who helped bring them into being. Each side in the great political conflict t
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― Dangerous Nation: America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
― Dangerous Nation: America's Foreign Policy from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
