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The Man of the People

Political Dissent and the Making of the American Presidency

By: Nathaniel C. Green

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The Man of the People

Political Dissent and the Making of the American Presidency

By: Nathaniel C. Green

Donald Trump’s election has forced the United States to reckon with not only the political power of the presidency, but also how he and his supporters have used the office to advance their shared vision of America: one that is avowedly nationalist, and unrepentantly rooted in nativism and white supremacy. It might be easy to attribute this dark vision, and the presidency’s immense power to reflect and reinforce it, to the singular character of one particular president—but to do so, this book tells us, would be to ignore the critical role the American public played in making the president “the man of the people” in the nation’s earliest decades. Beginning with the public debate over whether to ratify the Constitution in 1787 and concluding with Andrew Jackson’s own contentious presidency, Nathaniel C. Green traces the origins of our conception of the president as the ultimate American: the exemplar of our collective national values, morals, and “character.” The public divisiveness over the presidency in these earliest years, he contends, forged the office into an incomparable symbol of an emerging American nationalism that cast white Americans as dissenters—lovers of liberty who were willing to mobilize against tyranny in all its forms, from foreign governments to black “enemies” and Indian “savages”—even as it fomented partisan division that belied the promise of unity the presidency symbolized. With testimony from private letters, diaries, newspapers, and bills, Green documents the shaping of the disturbingly nationalistic vision that has given the presidency its symbolic power. This argument is about a different time than our own. And yet it shows how this time, so often revered as a mythic “founding era” from which America has precipitously declined, was in fact the birthplace of the president-centered nationalism that still defines the contours of politics to this day. The lessons of The Man of the People contextualize the political turmoil surrounding the presidency today. Never in modern US history have those lessons been more badly needed.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700636773

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9780700636778

Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

Abandoning Babylon

By: Nathaniel Robert Walker

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Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia

Abandoning Babylon

By: Nathaniel Robert Walker

The rise of suburbs and the disinvestment from cities have been defining features of life in many countries over the course of the twentieth century, especially English-speaking countires. The separation of different aspects of life, such as living and working, and the diffusion of the population in far-flung garden homes have necessitated the enormous consumption of natural lands and the constant use of mechanized transportation. Why did we abandon our dense, complex urban places and seek to find 'the best of the city and the country' in the flowery suburbs? Looking back at the architecture and urban design of the 1800s offers some answers, but a missing piece in the story is found in Victorian utopian literature. The replacement of cities with high-tech suburbs was repeatedly imagined and breathlessly described in the socialist dreams and science-fiction fantasies of dozens of British and American authors. Some of these visionaries -- such as Robert Owen, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Bellamy, William Morris, Ebenezer Howard, and H.G. Wells -- are enduringly famous, while others were street vendors or amateur chemists who have been all but forgotten. Together, they fashioned strange and beautiful imaginary worlds built of synthetic gemstones, lacy metal colonnades, and unbreakable glass, staffed by robotic servants and teeming with flying carriages. As different as their futuristic visions could be, however, most of them were unified by a single, desperate plea: for humanity to have a future worth living, we must abandon our smoky, poor, chaotic Babylonian cities for a life in shimmering gardens.

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573

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Oxford University Press

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0192605879

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9780192605870

Bunker Hill

A City, A Siege, A Revolution

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

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Bunker Hill

A City, A Siege, A Revolution

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in this "masterpiece of narrative and perspective." (Boston Globe) In the opening volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his keen eye to pre-Revolutionary Boston and the spark that ignited the American Revolution. In the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party and the violence at Lexington and Concord, the conflict escalated and skirmishes gave way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It was the bloodiest conflict of the revolutionary war, and the point of no return for the rebellious colonists. Philbrick gives us a fresh view of the story and its dynamic personalities, including John Adams, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and George Washington. With passion and insight, he reconstructs the revolutionary landscape—geographic and ideological—in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America.

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449

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Penguin

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014312532X

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9780143125327

My Philosophy of Education

It's All About Audience

By: Nathaniel Max Rock

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My Philosophy of Education

It's All About Audience

By: Nathaniel Max Rock

Teacher and educator Nathaniel Max Rock, believes he has been called to the profession of teaching, "By the will of God and the authority of Jesus Christ." In this bluntly forthright treatise on the state of education, Max lays out his perspective on multi-cultural education, federal and state standards and the harsh realities of student motivation. Additional material is included on the subjects of teacher personalities, curriculum design and the presentation of a radical high school model. Nathaniel Max Rock is an engineer by training with a masters in business. Max has been an educator since 2002 teaching the subjects of Algebra I, Geometry I, Honors Geometry I, AVID and CAHSEE test prep. 96 pages

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Team Rock Press

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0974939226

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9780974939223

A Treatise on the Law of Partnership, Including its Application to Companies

Vol. II

By: Marshall Davis Ewell,Nathaniel Lindley,Samuel Dickinson

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A Treatise on the Law of Partnership, Including its Application to Companies

Vol. II

By: Marshall Davis Ewell,Nathaniel Lindley,Samuel Dickinson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368862898

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9783368862893

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