Jeffersonian Persuasion

No library holdings of political party development or the early political history of the nation will be complete withoutThe Jeffersonian Persuasion. -Choice This revisionary study offers a convincing new interpretation of Jeffersonian Republican thought in the 1790s. Based on extensive research in the newspapers and political pamphlets of the decade as well as the public and private writings of party leaders, it traces the development of party ideology and examines the relationship of ideology to party growth and actions.