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Author:
Parenti, Christian, author.
Title:
Radical Hamilton : economic lessons from a misunderstood founder / Christian Parenti.
Edition:
First edition hardback.
Publisher:
Verso,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
296 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Hamilton, Alexander,--1757-1804.
United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.
United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
Hamilton, Alexander,--1757-1804.--Report on the subject of manufactures.
Statesmen--United States--Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Do we know Hamilton? -- Cometh the hour, cometh the man -- The supply effort, from grand forage to manufacturing -- "The badness of the money" : inflation and war -- Military mutiny and the critical period -- Postwar depression -- Challenging the weak state : frontier secessionists, maroons, and Native Americans -- Shays's Rebellion : culmination of crisis -- The Constitution as reaction to crisis -- A dirigiste interpretation of the Constitution -- Public debt as central power -- A bank uniting sword and purse -- The report -- Small-government apocalypse : tax cuts, austerity, and enemy invasion -- The report's long impact.
Summary:
"This book explains Hamilton's radical ideas in the context of his revolutionary times and in contrast to other revolutionaries, such as Thomas Jefferson, who emerges as the epitome of rural, slave-owning, anti-statist thinkers. This is a book of scholarship, with hundreds of notes and explanations of early American economics and history, but written in a stylish, accessible, narrative style befitting a leading, longtime journalist"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1786633922
9781786633927
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1142002558
LCCN:
2020008282
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

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