Join bestselling historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist and RMWF Literary Lion H.W. Brands as he recounts the revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States. The country’s first years unfolded in a contentious spiral of ugly elections and blatant violations of the Constitution. Still, peaceful transfers of power continued, and the nascent country made its way towards global dominance, against all odds. Brands remind us that fierce partisanship is a problem as old as the republic.