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Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Politicians at Washington very generally failed to realize that the advent of President Hayes marked the dismissal of the issues of war and reconstruction. They regarded as an episode what turned out to be the close of an era. They saw, indeed, that public interest in the old issues...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - We have only started on our development of our country - we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface. The progress has been wonderful enough-but when we com...

Excerpt from The Cost of Our National Government: A Study in Political Pathology This volume contains the substance of lectures deliv ered on the George Blumenthal Foundation at Columbia University in the fall and winter of 1909. The lectures were delivered from briefs, and in preparing them for publication, some documentary material cited during the argument has been transferred to foot-notes and appen dices, while in other cases matter refe...

Excerpt from The Natural History of the State: An Introduction to Political ScienceWhich the doctrine now bears on politics. To meet this difficulty the present work has been produced. Although the treatment is concise, the work makes a detailed survey of connec tions between biology and politics inferable from the doctrine, with notes and references directing the reader to sources of information on the topics discussed. Hence any class of rea...

Excerpt from The Rise and Growth of American Politics: A Sketch of Constitutional Development The purpose of this work is to tell the story of our politics so as to explain their nature and inter pret their characteristics. Consideration Of ques tions of public policy or of party issues does not enter into the plan, and they are referred to only as they have affected the formation of political structure, but in this respect their in¿uence has...

Excerpt from The Scotch-Irish in America Acknowledgment of the importance of Ulster emigration to America frequently occurs in the works of English and American historians deal ing with the events of the eighteenth century, and a mass of literature has accumulated in both countries with regard to particular phases of the subject. A systematic treatise devoted to that special theme seemed to be desirable, and hence the book now before the read...

Excerpt from Washington and His Colleague: A Chronicle of the Rise and Fail of Federalism Soon after Washington arrived in New York he sought Hamilton's aid in the management of the national finances. There was the rock on which the government of the Confederation had found ered. There the most skillful pilotage was re quired if the new government was to make a safe voyage. Washington's first thought had been to get Robert Morris to take char...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - We have only started on our development of our country - we have not as yet, with all our talk of wonderful progress, done more than scratch the surface. The progress has been wonderful enough-but when we compare what we have done with what there is to do, then our past accomplishme...

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Excerpt from Woodrow Wilson: The Man and His Work, a Biographical Study In this work I have tried to give a systematic account of what Woodrow Wilson has done, and of the principles on which he acts. The latter is really the more important, for information without insight is of little value and indeed may be a disadvantage. Besides recounting events I have therefore endeavored to exhibit them in their bearing upon the public welfare, apart fr...

Excerpt from Alexander HamiltonLittle material is available for a biography of Alexander Hamilton beyond that collected by his son, J ohn Church Hamilton, and his grandson, Allan mclane Hamilton. Much that once existed was lost. Tuckerman's Life of General Philip Schuyler relates that many letters from Hamilton and other political papers were burned by a son of one of Schuyler's executors, because he regarded them as containing expressions too...

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