Andrew Jackson
What can Never Trump learn from the nineteenth century’s Free Soilers?
The pre-Civil War era contains plenty of lessons for contemporary politics
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why traditional topiary is
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The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
A country at war with itself
Washington politics can
best be understood through the history
of bitter factional in-fi ghting within both
the Democratic and Republican parties