The Founders' Curse Amber Butchart is on a journey of

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Courage is not just for heroes

challenging us to reconsider the AFL and its influence on twentieth-century history

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The Founders' Curse Amber Butchart is on a journey ofHow James Monroe's relationships impacted the rise, fall, and rebirth of political parties in the early American republic. From the Revolutionary War to his death in 1831, James Monroe's life was dominated by partisan politics. Monroe not uniquely among the American founders hated political parties, even writing that he "always considered their existence as the curse of the country." Yet his career saw the rise, fall, and rebirth of American political