Title
The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton : The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father / ed. by Robert W. T. Martin, Douglas Ambrose.
ISBN
9780814707845
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2006]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814707845.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.4/092
Summary
Revolutionary War officer, co-author of the Federalist Papers, our first Treasury Secretary, Thomas Jefferson's nemesis, and victim of a fatal duel with Aaron Burr: Alexander 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. On the other hand, he has received far less popular and scholarly attention than his brethren. Who was he really and what is his legacy?Scholars have long disagreed. Was Hamilton a closet monarchist or a sincere republican? A victim of partisan politics or one of its most active promoters? A lackey for British interests or a foreign policy mastermind? The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton addresses these and other perennial questions. Leading Hamilton scholars, both historians and political scientists alike, present fresh evidence and new, sometimes competing, interpretations of the man, his thought, and the legacy he has had on America and the world.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Available in Other Form
print 9780814707142
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
PART I. The Contest with Jefferson
2. "Opposed in Death as in Life"
3. The Hamiltonian Invention of Thomas Jefferson
4. Alexander Hamilton's View of Thomas Jefferson's Ideology and Character
PART II. Hamilton's Republicanism
5. Reforming Republicanism
6. Understanding the Confusing Role of Virtue in The Federalist
7. Madison versus Hamilton
PART III. Hamilton's Legacies
8. Alexander Hamilton and the 1790s Economy
9. Hamilton and Haiti
10. Hamilton, Croly, and American Public Philosophy
11. Epilogue
Contributors
Index
