| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

"Let a Common Interest Bind Us Together": Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775–1840. By Albrecht Koschnik. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007. xiv, 351 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8139-2648-3.)

Although party politics today is as American as apple pie, many founding-era Americans feared that the emergence of party loyalties would prove divisive and ultimately destroy the republic. George Washington warned Americans against parties in his farewell address in 1796: "The alternate domination of one faction over another," he wrote, "sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension ... is itself a frightful despotism." Yet Washington's own cabinet divided over issues both foreign and domestic. While some scholars argue that these divisions shaped the first party system, others assert that Republicans and Federalists in that era did not behave as true political parties.

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