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Politics Without Party
Presidents Above Party, by Ralph L. Ketcham
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Gordon S. Wood
The New York Review of Books
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October 11, 1984
, pp. 18-20
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Presidents Above Party
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Ralph L. Ketcham
The First American Presidency, 1789-1829
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