Research Catalog

Title

• The Jeffersonians; a study in administrative history, 1801-1829.

Author

White, Leonard Dupee, 1891-1958

Publication

New York, Macmillan, 1951.

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Details

Description

xiv, 572 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

A study of public administration in the United States during the administrations of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams.

Subject

• 1783-1865
• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
• United States > Politics and government > 1783-1865

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical footnotes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Thomas Jefferson and the Administrative System -- The State of the Nation -- The Presidency -- The President and Congress: Institutional Developments -- The President and the Administrative System -- The President and the Cabinet -- Congress and the Administrative System -- Congress and the Control of Expenditures -- Congress and Administrative Reform -- The Treasury -- The Collectors -- Accountability: Paralysis and Reform -- The State Department -- The Domestic Business of the State Department -- The War Department -- The Army Supply System -- The War Department and the Army -- West Point and the Army Engineers -- The Navy -- The Navy Ashore -- The Post Office -- Postmasters and Contractors -- The Office of the Attorney General -- Personnel Administration: Theory and Practice -- Public Service Careers -- The Cloud on the Horizon -- Jonathan Chooses to Live Snug -- Public Service Ethics -- The Embargo: An Experiment in Peaceable Coercion -- End of the Experiment -- Internal Improvements -- "In Regions Wide and Wild": the Management of Indian Affairs -- Disposition of the Public Lands -- Administrative Dualism: The Case of the Militia: Republican Achievements in Administration.

LCCN

^^^51012490^

OCLC

498193

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library