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Book SynopsisAlexander Hamilton has been the focus of debate from his day to ours. On the one hand, Hamilton was the quintessential Founding Father, playing a central role in every key debate and event in the Revolutionary and Early Republic eras. Who was he really and what is his legacy? Was Hamilton a closet monarchist or a sincere republican?
Trade ReviewThis book . . . achiev[es] a badly needed analysis of Hamilton’s impact on his and later times. * The Historian *
Scholars whose interests include the political, diplomatic, and economics aspects of the early republic will find these works rewarding additions to their reading. * Journal of the Early Republic *
Here are many fresh thoughts by many of the most innovative scholars at work on Alexander Hamilton today. Every student of the new republic and many general readers who are captivated by the subject will want to read this volume. -- Lance Banning,author of Conceived in Liberty: The Struggle to Define the New Republic, 1789-1793
Talleyrand, who was acquainted with all of the statesmen of Europe, once remarked that he had never encountered anyone & equal to Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton may, in fact, have been the greatest of the American Founding Fathers. He was certainly one of the most important. Despite this, he has rarely been given his due. This superb collection of essays goes a considerable distance towards redressing the balance and towards restoring an American statesman to the central place that he occupied in his own time. -- Paul A. Rahe,author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Life and Many Faces of Alexander HamiltonDouglas AmbrosePart I: The Contest with Je?erson2 "Opposed in Death as in Life": Hamilton and Je?erson in American Memory Stephen Knott3 The Hamiltonian Invention of Thomas Je?erson Robert M. S. McDonald4 Alexander Hamilton's View of Thomas Je?erson's Ideology and Character James H. ReadPart II: Hamilton's Republicanism5 Reforming Republicanism: Alexander Hamilton's Theory of Republican Citizenship and Press Liberty Robert W. T. Martin6 Understanding the Confusing Role of Virtue in The Federalist: The Rhetorical Demands of Two Audiences Barry Alan Shain7 Madison versus Hamilton: The Battle over Republicanism and the Role of Public Opinion Colleen A. SheehanPart III: Hamilton's Legacies8 Alexander Hamilton and the 1790s Economy: A Reappraisal Carey Roberts9 Hamilton and Haiti Daniel G. Lang10 Hamilton, Croly, and American Public Philosophy Peter McNamara11 Epilogue: Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and the Spirit of Capitalism John Patrick DigginsContributors Index
