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The birth of empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American experience, 1769-1828

A biography relating the life of DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), one of America's strongest political leaders in the early 19th century. It examines his patrician sentiments, his form of party politics and his influence on the economic expansion of the country and its political geography.

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  • "DeWitt Clinton and the American experience, 1769-1828"@en

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  • "The Birth of Empire chronicles not only the life of an important political leader but the accomplishments that underlay his success. As mayor of New York City, for example, Clinton was instrumental in the founding of the public-school system. He sponsored countless measures to promote cultural enrichment as well as educational opportunities for New Yorkers, and helped to establish and lead such institutions as the New-York Historical Society, the American Academy of the Arts, and the Literary and Philosophical Society. As shown here, Clinton's career was marked by frequent attempts to integrate his cultural and scientific interests into his identity as a politician, thus projecting the image of a man of wide learning and broad vision, a scholar-statesman of the new republic. Ironically, the political innovations which Clinton set in motion - the refinement of patronage and the spoils system, appeals to immigrant voters, and the professionalization of politics - were precisely what led to the extinction of the scholar-statesman's natural habitat. DeWitt Clinton was born into the aristocratic culture of the eighteenth century, yet his achievements and ideas crucially influenced (in ways he did not always anticipate) the growth of the mass society of the nineteenth century."
  • "A biography relating the life of DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828), one of America's strongest political leaders in the early 19th century. It examines his patrician sentiments, his form of party politics and his influence on the economic expansion of the country and its political geography."@en
  • "DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) was one of the nation's strongest political leaders in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, serving as mayor of New York City, governor of the state, and narrowly losing the Presidential race of 1812 to James Madison. Patrician in his sentiments, Clinton nevertheless invented new forms of party politics. His greatest achievement, the Erie Canal, hastened the economic expansion of the country, altered the political geography of the nation, set an example for activist government, and decisively secured New York City's position as America's first and foremost metropolis. This new book relates the full biography of one of the most important political figures in US history."@en

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  • "Biografieën (vorm)"
  • "Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "History"@en
  • "Ressources Internet"
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  • "Biographie (Descripteur de forme)"

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  • "The birth of empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American experience, 1769-1828"@en
  • "The birth of empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American experience, 1769-1828"
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  • "The birth of empire DeWitt Clinton and the American experience, 1769-1828"@en
  • "The Birth of Empire DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828"@en
  • "The birth of empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American experience, 1769 - 1828"

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