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020 $a9781608195282 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aE332.2$b.F47 2013
082 00 $a973.09/9$223
100 1 $aFerling, John E.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aJefferson and Hamilton :$bthe rivalry that forged a nation /$cJohn Ferling.
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bBloomsbury Press,$c2013.
300 $axxi, 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color), portraits ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 363-365) and index.
505 00 $tComing of age.$t"To make a more universal acquaintance": unhappy youths --$tThe American revolution.$t"The galling yoke of dependence": becoming rebels --$t"Is my country the better for my having lived": making the American revolution --$t"If we are saved, France and Spain must save us": the forge of war --$t"Our affairs seem to be approaching fast to a happy period": glory for Hamilton, misery for Jefferson --$tPostwar America.$t"The inefficacy of the present confederation": grief and intrigue --$t"They will go back good republicans": Jefferson in Paris --$t"To check the imprudence of democracy": Hamilton and the New Constitution --$tThe struggle to shape the new American Republic.$t"The greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar": the threshold of partisan warfare --$t"Devoted to the paper and stockjobbing interest": unbridled partisan warfare --$t"A little innocent blood": to the mountaintop and to the top of the mountain --$t"A colossus to the antirepublican party": the election of 1796 --$t"The man is stark mad": the election of 1800 - "This American world was not made for me": a glorious beginning and a tragic end --$tReckoning.
520 $a"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-- each side convinced that the other's goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought and so dearly won. All understood as well that what was at stake was not a moment's political advantage, but the future course of the American experiment in democracy. In this epochal debate, no two figures loomed larger than Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. Both men were visionaries, but their visions of what the United States should be were diametrically opposed. Jefferson, a true revolutionary, believed passionately in individual liberty and a more egalitarian society, with a weak central government and greater powers for the states. Hamilton, a brilliant organizer and tactician, feared chaos and social disorder. He sought to build a powerful national government that could ensure the young nation's security and drive it toward economic greatness. Jefferson and Hamilton is the story of the fierce struggle-- both public and, ultimately, bitterly personal-- between these two titans. It ended only with the death of Hamilton in a pistol duel, felled by Aaron Burr, Jefferson's vice president. Their competing legacies, like the twin strands of DNA, continue to shape our country to this day. Their personalities, their passions, and their bold dreams for America leap from the page in this epic new work from one of our finest historians" -- from publisher's web page.
600 10 $aJefferson, Thomas,$d1743-1826$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aHamilton, Alexander,$d1757-1804$xPolitical and social views.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$y1783-1815.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1789-1797.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1797-1801.
852 00 $bglx$hE332.2$i.F47 2013