The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828 Hardcover - 1998
by Evan Cornog
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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.
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- Title The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828
- Author Evan Cornog
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 1998-12-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780195119497 / 0195119495
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.52 x 6.46 x 0.89 in (24.18 x 16.41 x 2.26 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1800-1850
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government -, Legislators - United States - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97053112
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- New York Times, 01/10/1999, Page 17
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