A must read for any historian, or any American. All Customer Reviews Avg. They determined the course and form of our country after the revolution. The author uses six episodes, each of them focusing on one individual, to tell us about the tribulations after 1786. More often than not, no clear goals are set for the time after a successful revolution.
Interest groups fall apart again and each one tries to put their program on top of the heap.
And that is how revolutions fail - in their aftermath. His vice president was Jefferson, leader of the Republicans, who did his utmost to sink the presidency of Mr. Adams. In the final result, the Republicans from the South won. Otherwise we would now have a government like Great Britain. Of course, deals were made on a weekly basis.