Book Review: Jefferson and Hamilton
/A master historian analyzes the tempestuous relationship between two titans of the newborn United States
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A master historian analyzes the tempestuous relationship between two titans of the newborn United States
Read MoreThe newly-born United States was a disorganized and largely bucolic hodge-podge until three clear-eyed financiers - all of them immigrants - worked to create a new and more monetized system
Read MoreJames Madison was more cautious and purposeful than the temperamental Hamilton or the effusive Jefferson. Indeed, to paraphrase Brookhiser, Hamilton was a rocket, Jefferson was a kite, Madison was a ballast.
Read MorePatrick Henry uttered one of the most famous lines in American history, and a new biography attempts to claim him for a particular radical strain of popularism in contemporary politics. Give me liberty or give me... historical distortion?
Read MoreFor two centuries, he's been the founding myth of his nation: first in war, first in peace, Washington the paragon. Ron Chernow's new biography does nothing to tarnish that image -- but should it?
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