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Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation

✍ Scribed by Ferling, John

Book ID: 107806415
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Weight: 4 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781608195428

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✦ Synopsis

A spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America.

From the award-winning author of Almost a Miracle and The Ascent of George Washington, this is the rare work of scholarship that offers us irresistible human drama even as it enriches our understanding of deep themes in our nation's history.

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 ...

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