With the fathers : studies in the history of the United States / by John Bach McMaster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMaster, John Bach, 1852-1932, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 334 pages)

Other Title:

With the Fathers

Place of Publication:

New York : D. Appleton and Company, [1896]

Summary:

A Century of Constitutional Interpretation were contributed to the Century Magazine; Washington's Inauguration to} Harper's Magazine; The Third Term Tradition, The Riotous Career of the Know N othings, A Century's Struggle for Silver, and Is Sound Finance Possible under Popular Govern ment 2 to the Forum. My thanks are due, there fore, to Messrs. Harper Brothers, and to the editors of the Atlantic Monthly, the Century Magazine, and the Forum for their permission to reprint these essays. The gist of The Monroe Doctrine was contrib uted to the New York Times. How the British left New York was first published in the New York Press. To both of these journals an acknowledgment of my indebtedness is made.

Contents:

The Monroe doctrine.

The third-term tradition.

The political depravity of the fathers.

The riotous career of the Know-nothings.

The framers and the framing of the Constitution.

Washington's inauguration.

A century of constitutional interpretation.

A century's struggle for silver.

Is sound finance possible under popular government?

Franklin in France.

How the British left New York.

The struggle for territory.

Four centuries of progress.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.