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The cabinet : George Washington and the creation of an American institution

"On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries--Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph--for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet? Because the U.S. Constitution did not...

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Main Author: Chervinsky, Lindsay M., 1988- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
Edition:First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Subjects and Genres:
Washington, George, > 1732-1799 > Influence.
Hamilton, Alexander, > 1757-1804.
Jefferson, Thomas, > 1743-1826.
Knox, Henry, > 1750-1806.
Randolph, Edmund, > 1753-1813.
Cabinet officers > United States > History > 18th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1789-1797.
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Table of Contents:
  • Forged in war
  • The original team of rivals
  • Setting the stage
  • The early years
  • The cabinet emerges
  • A foreign challenge
  • A domestic threat
  • A cabinet in crisis.

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