In a blatant affront to the almighty Livingstons, Hamilton threw his weight behind his thirty-four-year-old friend Rufus King, a handsome, Harvard-educated lawyer from New England who had recently mov...
In a country riven by quarrels, Hamilton produced a vision of harmonious parts. Agriculture and commerce were mutually beneficial. North and south, the western frontier and the eastern seaboard, enjoy...
In addition to his better-known title of Father of His Country, Washington is also revered in certain circles as the Father of the American Mule.
In closing, Washington referred to the character of Jesus, the Divine author of our blessed religion.32
In his essays on the need for executive-branch vigor, Hamilton continually invoked the king of England as an example of what should be avoided, especially the monarch’s lack of accountability. Every p...
In number 71, Hamilton presented his theory of presidents as leaders who should act for the popular good, even if the people were sometimes deluded about their interests.
In other words, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence was recommending to the chief architect of the U.S. Constitution that any Virginia bank functionary who cooperated with Hamilton...
It is easy to snicker at such deceit and conclude that Hamilton faked all emotion for his wife, but this would belie the otherwise exemplary nature of their marriage. Eliza Hamilton never expressed an...
It may be that Hamilton’s preference for a diversified economy of manufacturing and agriculture originated in his youthful reflections on the avoidable poverty he had witnessed in the Caribbean.
It often happens that our zeal is at variance with our understanding.
It turned out that before he had stalked Garfield, Charles Guiteau had stalked Grant.
It was probably at this point that a pregnant Eliza first smiled and shook hands with her husband’s future executioner.
It was, Eliza Hamilton Holly noted pointedly, the imperative duty that Eliza had bequeathed to all her children: Justice shall be done to the memory of my Hamilton.
Julia would gladly have stayed for one more term and had no qualms about scrapping George Washington’s precedent. Oh, Ulys! was that kind to me? she protested. Was it just to me? Well, he replied, I d...
Julia’s brother Lewis, who remained in California, allowed them to use his house Wish-ton-wish—an Indian term meaning whip-poor-will—
Like most people, Hamilton and Adams were preternaturally sensitive to flaws in the other that they themselves possessed.
Like other founders and thinkers of the Enlightenment, he was disturbed by religious fanaticism and tended to associate organized religion with superstition. While a member of Washington’s military fa...
Machiavelli’s The Prince and Plutarch’s Lives,
Madison did not want a long-term government debt, fearing that such securities would fall into foreign hands: As they have more money than the Americans and less productive ways of laying it out, they...
Many of the real scenes in early California life exceed in strangeness and interest any of the mere products of the brain of the novelist, he declared
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