Adams vs. Jefferson

出版者:Oxford University Press, USA

作者:John Ferling

页数:288

出版时间:2005-10-20

价格:USD 19.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780195189063

具体描述

It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a campaign that climaxed in a deadlock in the Electoral College and led to a crisis in which the young republic teetered on the edge of collapse. Adams vs. Jefferson is a gripping account of a true turning point in American history, a dramatic struggle between two parties with profoundly different visions of how the nation should be governed. Adams led the Federalists, conservatives who favored a strong central government, and Jefferson led the Republicans, egalitarians who felt the Federalists had betrayed the Revolution of 1776 and were backsliding toward monarchy. The campaign itself was a barroom brawl every bit as ruthless as any modern contest, with mud-slinging--Federalists called Jefferson "a howling atheist"--scare tactics, and backstabbing. The low point came when Alexander Hamilton printed a devastating attack on Adams, the head of his own party, in "fifty-four pages of unremitting vilification." The election ended in a stalemate in the Electoral College that dragged on for days and nights and through dozens of ballots. Tensions ran so high that the Republicans threatened civil war if the Federalists denied Jefferson the presidency. Finally a secret deal that changed a single vote gave Jefferson the White House. A devastated Adams left Washington before dawn on Inauguration Day, too embittered even to shake his rival's hand. Jefferson's election, John Ferling concludes, consummated the American Revolution, assuring the democratization of the United States and its true separation from Britain. With magisterial command, Ferling brings to life both the outsize personalities and the hotly contested political questions at stake. He shows not just why this moment was a milestone in U.S. history, but how strongly the issues--and the passions--of 1800 resonate with our own time.

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我可能是一个永远不会给满星的人……不过书里确实回顾了1790-1800年美国内部的冲突，以及详细介绍了1800年大选本身。但是我真的没看懂你美当时是个什么选举流程……不过这本书倒是促使我有点明白了1800年大选的重要意义……【其实我只是一直在看八卦

我可能是一个永远不会给满星的人……不过书里确实回顾了1790-1800年美国内部的冲突，以及详细介绍了1800年大选本身。但是我真的没看懂你美当时是个什么选举流程……不过这本书倒是促使我有点明白了1800年大选的重要意义……【其实我只是一直在看八卦

我可能是一个永远不会给满星的人……不过书里确实回顾了1790-1800年美国内部的冲突，以及详细介绍了1800年大选本身。但是我真的没看懂你美当时是个什么选举流程……不过这本书倒是促使我有点明白了1800年大选的重要意义……【其实我只是一直在看八卦

我可能是一个永远不会给满星的人……不过书里确实回顾了1790-1800年美国内部的冲突，以及详细介绍了1800年大选本身。但是我真的没看懂你美当时是个什么选举流程……不过这本书倒是促使我有点明白了1800年大选的重要意义……【其实我只是一直在看八卦