Jefferson and Hamilton : the rivalry that forged a nation /
A spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and their competing visions for America.The decade of the 1790s has been called the 'age of passion.' Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic. Eac...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Coming of age. "To make a more universal acquaintance": unhappy youths
- The American revolution. "The galling yoke of dependence": becoming rebels
- "Is my country the better for my having lived": making the American revolution
- "If we are saved, France and Spain must save us": the forge of war
- "Our affairs seem to be approaching fast to a happy period": glory for Hamilton, misery for Jefferson
- Postwar America. "The inefficacy of the present confederation": grief and intrigue
- "They will go back good republicans": Jefferson in Paris
- "To check the imprudence of democracy": Hamilton and the New Constitution
- The struggle to shape the new American Republic. "The greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar": the threshold of partisan warfare
- "Devoted to the paper and stockjobbing interest": unbridled partisan warfare
- "A little innocent blood": to the mountaintop and to the top of the mountain
- "A colossus to the antirepublican party": the election of 1796
- "The man is stark mad": partisan frenzy
- "This American world was not made for me": a glorious beginning and a tragic end
- Reckoning.