On January 21, 1793, more grisly events forced a reappraisal of the notion that the French Revolution was a romantic Gallic variant of the American Revolution. Louis XVI—who had aided the American Rev...
The power of the new mass media made Grant’s illness a national spectacle, with his doctors offering twice-daily updates on his condition.
There are some people whom the Lord Almighty cannot save, he later said wearily of the Oil Creek refiners. They don’t want to be saved. They want to go on and serve the devil and keep on in their wick...
The practice of mankind ought to have great weight against the theories of individuals.
Even to the renowned Washington.
On July 5, the Second Continental Congress made one final feeble effort to ward off further hostilities when it endorsed the Olive Branch Petition, urging a negotiated solution to the conflict with En...
Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed and A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds.
So it may be said, with undoubted truth, that the whiskey drinkers made Mr. Jefferson the President of the United States.48
Chaste and tender (I am an enthusiast in my notions of fidelity and fondness),
May 12, 1784, the state legislature passed a law depriving most Loyalists of the vote for the next two years.
Extracts from a six-volume set of Plutarch’s Lives. Thereafter, Hamilton always interpreted politics as an epic tale from Plutarch of lust and greed and people plotting for power. Since his political...
When he exhausted his list, he simply started over from the top and visited several firms two or three times.
In early July 1777, Fort Ticonderoga in upstate New York fell to the British, prompting King George III to clap his hands and exclaim, I have beat them! Beat all the Americans.58 It was a potential ca...
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Noah Webster contended that Hamilton’s ambition, pride, and overbearing temper had destined him to be the evil genius of this country.
The evening of Hamilton’s death, New York’s leading merchants exhorted one another to shutter their shops for a state funeral hastily arranged for Saturday, July 14. The corpse is already putrid, Gouv...
Polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity,
These horror stories about Hamilton have been regurgitated for two centuries and are now engraved on the memories of historians and readers alike. Unfortunately, these vignettes often cruelly misrepre...
Hamilton then picked up a slim volume on the table and turned it over in his hands. Ah, this is the constitution, he said. Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instr...
The funeral was a vast, elaborate affair, befitting a monarch or head of state, in marked contrast to the essential simplicity of the man honored. The grandeur emphasized the central place that Grant...
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