Publication

2001 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

94,000 words, Guess

Page Count

376 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • LibraryThing185274
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001000915
  • OCLC Control Number46353290
  • Better World Books9780300088779
  • Open LibraryOL3937428M

Classifications

  • DDC306.2/0973/09034
  • LCCE310 .F85 2001
  • LCCE310.F85 2001

Description

"In this book, Joanne Freeman offers a major reassessment of political culture in the early years of the American republic. By exploring both the public actions and private papers of key figures like Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, and Alexander Hamilton, as well as less famous politicians such as Senators William Maclay and William Plumer, Freeman reveals an alien and profoundly unstable political world grounded on the code of honor. In the absence of a party system and with few examples to guide America's great experiment in republican governance, national politicians monitored their conduct and attacked their rivals according to the ethic of honor."--BOOK JACKET.

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  • Affairs of honor: national politics in the New RepublicYale University Press2001-01-01

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