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Jefferson vs. Hamilton

First  Edition©2000  Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.

ISBN:9781319242848

ISBN:9780312085858

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Highlighting the differing viewpoints of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton in the formative years of the new American nation, Jefferson vs. Hamilton interweaves more than 40 documents to impart their differing views of society and government. The text follows the lives and careers of each man from their youth, through the Revolutionary War, to Hamilton's death in 1804.

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Table of Contents

  Foreword
  Preface
  List of Illustrations
    
  Introduction
    
  1. Different Paths to Fame
    Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Harvie, January 14, 1760
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to Edward Stevens, November 11, 1769
    Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774
    Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
    James Madison, Summary of Hamilton's Response to the New Jersey and the Virginia Plans, June 18, 1787
    Robert Yates, Summary of Hamilton's Response to the New Jersey and the Virginia Plans, June 18, 1787
    Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787
    Thomas Jefferson, Address to His Neighbors, February 12, 1790
    
  2. Diverging Courses
    Alexander Hamilton, Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the Public Credit, January 14, 1790
    Thomas Jefferson, Account of a Compromise on Assumption and Residence Bills, 1792
    Dumas Malone, Assessment of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, 1951
    Broadus Mitchell, Assessment of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, 1962
    
  3. Poles Apart on Banks and Factories
    Alexander Hamilton, Report on a National Bank, December 14, 1790
    Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on the Constitutionality of Establishing a National Bank, February 15, 1791
    Alexander Hamilton, Opinion on the Constitutionality of Establishing a National Bank, February 23, 1791
    Thomas Jefferson, Notes of a Conversation between A. Hamilton and TH.J., August 13, 1791
    Alexander Hamilton, Introduction to the "Report on Manufactures," December 5, 1791
    
  4. Conflict in Washington's Cabinet
    Thomas Jefferson, Letter to President George Washington, May 23, 1792
    George Washington, Letter to Alexander Hamilton, July 29, 1792
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to Edward Carrington, May 26, 1792
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
    Thomas Jefferson, Letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792
    Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions on the Secretary of the Treasury, [before February 27, 1793]
    
  5. Disagreement on Foreign Affairs
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette, October 6, 1789
    Thomas Jefferson, Letter to George Mason, February 4, 1791
    Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Short, January 3, 1793
    Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to Theodore Sedgwick, February 2, 1799
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to Jonathan Dayton, October-November, 1799
    Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Elbridge Gerry, January 26, 1799
    
  6. Political Competitors
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to Theodore Sedgwick, May 4, 1800
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to John Jay, May 7, 1800
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to James A. Bayard, December 27, 1800
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to James A. Bayard, January 16, 1801
    Thomas Jefferson, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
    
  7. Hamilton and President Jefferson
    Thomas Jefferson, First Annual Message to Congress, December 8, 1801
    Alexander Hamilton, The Examination, Number I, December 17, 1801
    Alexander Hamilton, The Examination, Number IX, January 18, 1802
    Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Robert R. Livingston, April 18, 1802
    Alexander Hamilton, Article in the New-York Evening Post, February 8, 1803
    Alexander Hamilton, Article in the New-York Evening Post, July 5, 1803
    Alexander Hamilton, Letter to Theodore Sedgwick, July 10, 1804
    
  Epilogue: The Legacies of Jefferson and Hamilton
    
APPENDICES
    
  A Jefferson and Hamilton Chronology (1743-1826)
  Selected Bibliography
    
  Index

Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.

Noble E. Cunningham Jr. is Curators' Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia. With research and writing focused on the early national period of American history, his writings include In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson (1987); The Process of Government under Jefferson (1976); The Image of Thomas Jefferson in the Public Eye (1981); Popular Images of the Presidency from Washington to Lincoln (1991); and The Presidency of James Monroe (1996). He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities.