Washington and His Colleagues, by Henry Jones Ford

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"Washington and His Colleagues" from Henry Jones Ford. Political scientist, journalist, university professor, and government official (1851-1925).

Washington and His Colleagues, by Henry Jones Ford

• Published on: 2015-05-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.00" h x .25" w x 6.00" l, .34 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 108 pages

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Summary of Washington and Adams Presidencies By Scrapple8 ‘Washington and his Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of Federalism’ by Henry Jones Ford is the 14th volume of the Chronicles of America Series edited by Allen Johnson. This short (138 pages) text explains the Washington and Adams Administrations of the Early American Republic.The first two chapters focus on the etiquette of the office of the president, his deportment, and some of his early decisions to set the tone of the office. One early debate in Congress resolved around the responsibility of dismissing cabinet officers. Madison drafted a Bill of Rights – here, considered an inducement to convince Rhode Island and North Carolina to join the Union. The Bill of Rights owes its genesis just as much to the race for a Congressional seat in Virginia between James Madison and James Monroe. Madison’s pledge for a Bill of Rights during that race made the implementation of one a matter of personal honor.Chapters 3-7 each involve one topic of particular relevance to the Washington Administration:• Hamilton’s plan for Public Credit• Frontier and Indian affairs• Piracy of the Barbary States• The French Revolution in America, including Citizen Genet• The Jay Treaty with EnglandSmall issues are also embedded within each chapter. For example, Chapter IV is primarily about affairs on the frontier, but there is a section on Washington’s Northern and Southern state tours to promote national unity. Pinckney’s treaty with Spain is fit into Chapter 6, which is a chapter primarily about American affairs with France, including the Genet affair.Differences in policy emerged as the early republic tried to establish itself in America. The people with those differences emerged into political parties, Federalists and Republicans. Chapter 8 contains a discussion of the emergence of two parties. Ironically, the book does not mention the famous fight in Congress between Roger Griswold of CT and Matthew Lyon of VT that has been memorialized in a widely-circulated political cartoon. Nor does the chronicle draw special attention to the political newspapers that led the public debate between political parties. Philip Freneau and the National Gazette are mentioned, but John Fenno’s Gazette of the U.S. was an important voice for the Federalists.Chapter 9 crams the entire Adams Administration into one chapter of 18 pages, but the main events of the four years are captured: the XYZ Affair, the quasi war, the Alien and Sedition Acts and the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. The Sedition Act did not help the Federalists much, but the social implications of recruiting American aristocrats and creditors to the cause of Federalist to the exclusion of the burgeoning commercial class and Southern planters, who still harbored aristocratic pretensions but were still debtors, were as much a cause of the Jefferson Revolution of 1800 as any political event during the reign of Adams.This Chronicle leans toward the Federalists in its tenor, being critical of the Republican leader Thomas Jefferson and gushing with praise for the Federalist Alexander Hamilton. This observation is not meant to imply that you should or should not read the chronicle for its political tendencies. After all, these comments are few and far between. This chronicle focuses on telling the history of the era, not making a commentary about it.This Chronicle may not be the best vehicle to use in order to learn the material. My personal preference is to use the first seven chapters of Empire of Liberty by Gordon Wood. However, this chronicle can be helpful in remembering the major names, dates, and events of the Era of Federalism. Reading Wood’s book once was a daunting task, but this chronicle is short enough to read and re-read.This Chronicle is available for free on Project Gutenberg. In the e-book, the volume has an awkwardly constructed Table of Contents. You may also be confused by the following sentence on page 121: ‘This feature of McHenry's recommendations could not be curried out Pickering soon informed Hamilton that the old animosities were still so active "in some breasts" that the plan of cooperation was impracticable.’ This run-on sentence is actually two sentences – there should be a period after out. I also believe the author meant to say that the recommendations could not be carried out.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Not the Henry Ford who said "History is bunk," obviously. By Christopher (o.d.c.) Publication date: 1918"126 pp." is inaccurate. The 1918 Yale UP edition, which may be seen online, is 266 pp. Nonetheless, this is an admirably concise history of the US from 1789 to 1800.The author's style is crisp and reads well today. It is only dated in a certain confidence about Hamilton's rightness which even the most ardent Hamiltonian of our day would tone down for public consumption. Here is an example:... No one has ever contended that Hamilton was prompted by an economic motive in giving up his law practice to accept public office. He did so against the remonstrances of his friends, whose predictions that what he would get out of it for himself would be calumny, persecution, and loss of fortune, were all fully verified; but he possessed a nature which found its happiness in bringing high ideals to grand fulfillment, and in applying his powers to that object he let everything else go. Hamilton's career is one of the greatest of those facts that baffle attempts to reduce history to an exhibition of the play of economic forces.Again, although the book is concise, I don't think it misses much. I particularly liked re-encountering Washington's epic rant to his cabinet:Knox exhibited a print entitled the funeral of George W——n, in which the President was placed on a guillotine. "The President was much inflamed; got into one of those passions when he cannot command himself; ran much on the personal abuse which had been bestowed upon him; defied any man on earth to produce one single act of his since he had been in the Government which was not done from the purest motives; that he had never repented but once the having slipped the moment of resigning his office, and that was every moment since; that by God he had rather be in his grave than in his present situation; that he had rather be on his farm than to be made emperor of the world; and that they were charging him with wanting to be king; that that rascal Freneau sent him three of his papers every day, as if he thought he would become the distributor of his papers; that he could see in this nothing but an impudent design to insult him." [To which Ford appends helpfully:] Freneau was one of Jefferson's subordinates in the State Department, combining with his duties there the editorship of a newspaper engaged in spreading the calumny that the Administration was leaning toward monarchy through the influence of Hamilton and his friends, who despised republicanism, hated France, and loved England.I want to use one more quote to illustrate Ford's style, which is head and shoulders above the genteel schoolmarmish style which makes so many old history books unreadable today. Note how one understated fact suddenly opens a panorama into the next century:The usual address to Congress was delivered by Washington on December 7, 1796, shortly after the opening of the second session of the Fourth Congress. The occasion was connected in the public mind with his recent valedictory, and Congress was ready to vote a reply of particularly cordial tenor. Giles stood to his guns to the last, speaking and voting against complimentary resolutions. "He hoped gentlemen would compliment the President privately, as individuals; at the same time, he hoped such adulation would never pervade the House." He held that "the Administration has been neither wise nor firm," and he acknowledged that he was "one of those who do not think so much of the President as some others do." On this issue Madison forsook him, and Giles was voted down, 67 to 12. Among the eleven who stood by Giles was a new member who made his first appearance that session—Andrew Jackson of Tennessee.I have decided to try some other books in the series:Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynastyThe Reign of Andrew Jackson A Chronicle of the Frontier in PoliticsCan they possibly be as good?

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. informative By Peepers Used this book to help in a government class, very helpful. I would recommend this book to others as additional research

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