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Book SynopsisExplores the logic and logistics of Jeffersonian statesmanship. Focusing on Jeffersonian Republican statecraft in action,
Jeffersonians in Power maps the meeting place of ideology and policy as Jeffersonians shifted from being an oppositional party to exercising power as the ruling coalition.
Trade ReviewThese essays address, in light of the latest scholarship, the longstanding and important problem of how the Jeffersonians used power and how they went about translating their opposition ideas into policy and statecraft. The result is a book that does for the Republicans what Doron S. Ben-Atar and Barbara B. Oberg’s Federalists Reconsidered did for the Federalists: unsettles what we thought we knew, consistently offering complex new insights and opening avenues for further research. It is required reading for students of the era."
