Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Jane Dwinell Reality can be even stranger

Reality can be even stranger as borne out in this lush and ghostly look at real people who lived--and died--amidst the trappings of the Gothic

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Essential reading for understanding this moment in American history

Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Jane Dwinell Reality can be even strangerFrom bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before