Making the Presidency

Lindsay M. Chervinskyis Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library. She is the author of award-winningThe Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institutionand the co-editor ofMourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American Culture. Dr. Chervinsky was a historian at the White House Historical Association. She regularly writes for public audiences in publications including theWall Street Journal,Time Magazine, USA Today,CNN.com, Washington Monthly, and theWashington Postand is frequent presidential commentator on national TV and radio. Chervinsky lives in Alexandria, Virginia.

A Note on Language Introduction
Chapter One: An Address to the People of the United States
Chapter Two: Washington Recedes
Chapter Three: The Die Is Cast
Chapter Four: The "Sublimest Thing" Ever Exhibited in America
Chapter Five: A Scene of Ambition
Chapter Six: A Dishonorable Infidelity
Chapter Seven: Expect Nothing but the Most Unqualified Injustice
Chapter Eight: Not a Sixpence!
Chapter Nine: Poured in from All Quarters
Chapter Ten: Massacre the Inhabitants
Chapter Eleven: Decisive Measures
Chapter Twelve: The "Majic" of His Name
Chapter Thirteen: The Tocsin of Insurrection
Chapter Fourteen: All Evidence That They Are Sincere
Chapter Fifteen: Solely the President's Act
Chapter Sixteen: Struck by a Thunderbolt
Chapter Seventeen: The Spirit in the City is Very High
Chapter Eighteen: A Paltry Insurrection
Chapter Nineteen: The Air of Abdication
Chapter Twenty: The Apple of Discord to the Federalists
Chapter Twenty-One: The Late President of the United States, Is No More!
Chapter Twenty-Two: Their Gag in My Mouth
Chapter Twenty-Three: Hocus-Pocus Maneuvers
Chapter Twenty-Four: A Change in the Administration
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Seat of Government
Chapter Twenty-Six: Death or Liberty
Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Unqualified Conviction of His Unfitness for the Station
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Storms of a New Character
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Nothing but a Forest and Woods Along the Way
Chapter Thirty: The Prey of Anarchy and Faction
Chapter Thirty-One: The New Order of Things Begins
Epilogue: May None but Honest and Wise Men Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index