The Many Faces of Alexander Hamilton : : The Life and Legacy of America's Most Elusive Founding Father / / ed. by Douglas Ambrose, Robert W. T. Martin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Ambrose, Douglas,; Diggins, John Patrick,; Knott, Stephen,; Lang, Daniel G.,; Martin, Robert W. T.,; McDonald, Robert M. S.,; McNamara, Peter,; Read, James H.,; Roberts, Carey,; Shain, Barry Alan,; Sheehan, Colleen A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Ambrose, Douglas,; Martin, Robert W. T.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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,...

Table of Contents

• 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