Founding Partisans tablesettings culminating in the signing of

culminating in the signing of the Declaration in 1776

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This patron of the arts is the longest-reigning female consort of Britain

Founding Partisans tablesettings culminating in the signing ofFrom bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were a fatal threat to republican virtues. They had suffered the consequences of partisan politics in Britain before the American Revolution, and they wanted nothing similar for America. Yet parties emerged even before