Angie’s Reviews > Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics > Status Update

I ❤️ Jefferson’s ideals, at least he professes to be unafraid of democracy.

🤦‍♀️ The alien & sedition acts. So disappointing.

The complexities of the politics of that time and the enmity that came into the political discourse is a lot to think over. On the one hand they seem quite paranoid about everything. Anything they didn’t agree w/ was going to be the end of the independent republican union, but it’s not paranoia if it is justified, and since the govt. system was new, it was not known what would be good and what would be damaging.

Have I mentioned to ones that I am not a fan of Hamilton? Seems lucky for all of us that he never was able to be President.

Do I like John Adams because he is so gloomy& contrary all the time? 🤔 After all, growing up I loved Eeyore and Oscar the Grouch… it may just be my natural tendency 😁😆

I have to take this in little chunks or I suspect my brain might explode 🤯. So much to think about and consider. - And also so much to feel saddened and anxious about, politics hurts my heart. I find myself in agreement with Washington about needing more tolerance and less certitude, and more charity for the opinions and acts of one another.

Chose this because I liked the previous book by Brands that I read. So far I like this one too, though not so much new information from what I have read in other books. I do like that there are many excerpts from original letters and writings.