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American Machiavelli Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U. S. Foreign Policy

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ISBN-10: 0521834856

ISBN-13: 9780521834858

Edition: 2004

Authors: John Lamberton Harper

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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) was an illegitimate West Indian emigrant who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. American Machiavelli focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as foreign policy adviser and aspiring military leader. In the first major study of his foreign policy role in 30 years, John Lamberton Harper describes a decade of bitter division over the role of the Federal government in the economy during the 1790s and draws parallels between Hamilton and the sixteenth century Italian political adviser, Niccol Machiavelli. Harper provides an original and highly readable account of Hamiltonas famous clashes with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and his key role in…    
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List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/8/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.09" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Coming of Necessity
From Providence into Fortune, 1757 (?)-1781
Prepared To Be Not Good, 1781-1788
Battle Lines Are Drawn
At Washington's Side Again, 1789
Hamilton versus the Virginians, 1789-1791
The Nootka Sound Crisis, Part One: The Morris Mission
Nootka Sound, Part Two: The View from New York
Liaisons Dangereuses, 1791-1792
Seizing the Helm
The Birth of American Neutrality, February-May 1793
"A Most Distressing Dilemma," May-December 1793
Hamilton and the Crisis of 1794
The Jay Treaty
Informal Adviser to the Prince
Return to Not-So-Private Life, 1794-1795
"Camillus" into the Breach
A High-Stakes Game: Washington's Farewell Address, 1796
Transition to the New Regime, 1796-1797
A Prince in His Own Right?
Hamilton and Adams: The Background
Hamilton's "Grand Plan"
Hamilton and His Army, Part One, 1797-1798
Hamilton and His Army, Part Two, 1798-1799
Killing Two Birds with One Stone, 1799
The Lesser of Evils
1800 and After
From Fortune into Providence
Conclusion: Hamilton Then and Now
Notes
Bibliography
Index