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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Susan Dunn. Jefferson's Second Revolution: The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 2004. Pp. ix, 372. $25.00.
Susan Dunn's book focuses on the election of 1800 and recounts in her earlier chapters the familiar, but significant events of the 1790s leading up to that critical vote: the conflicts over Alexander Hamilton's financial program, the Whiskey Rebellion, the Jay Treaty, the election of 1796, the Alien and Sedition Acts, and the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. Chapters seven through ten concentrate more specifically on the election of 1800 itself. The last three chapters deal with the aftermath of the election and summarize the political history of the country up to Andrew Jackson's victory in 1828.	1
Dunn points out that virtually all of the political leaders of the early republic "idealized and advocated unity and harmony" (p. 39). But despite this strong antiparty sentiment present in American society in the 1790s, political parties were organized, and the Republicans especially mastered the art of political organizing. Indeed, by the end of George Washington's second term of office, "Parties—alternatively unrecognized, scorned, and condemned by Republicans no less than by Federalists—had already become a feature of the young republic" (p. 72).	2
After a brief flirtation with the idea of a coalition of unity between Federalist President John Adams and Republican Vice President Thomas Jefferson following the election of 1796, Adams also yielded "to the spirit of party," thus making "Harmony and unanimity ... a short-lived dream" (p. 90). Parties had become "part of the fabric of American politics," and "their power had to be harnessed and exploited to make government work" (p. 93).	. . .

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