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Founding Partisans is a work of narrative history by H. W. Brands that examines how political parties emerged in the early United States and why partisanship appeared almost immediately after independence. Centered on figures such as Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, and Adams, the book traces the conflict between competing visions of the new republic as the Constitution was drafted, debated, ratified, and tested in practice. Brands argues that the founders did not merely anticipate faction; they feared organized parties as a threat to republican government, yet the realities of politics quickly produced them anyway. The result is a history of the republic’s first struggles over national power, constitutional meaning, economic direction, and democratic legitimacy. Written for general readers, the book combines political history with interpretive analysis, showing how personal rivalry and ideological disagreement became the basis of America’s earliest party system.