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Author:
Harper, John Lamberton.
Title:
American Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the origins of U.S. foreign policy / John Lamberton Harper.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Copyright Date:
2007
Description:
xii, 347 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Hamilton, Alexander,--1757-1804.
Statesmen--United States--Biography.
United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783.
United States--Foreign relations--1783-1815.
United States--Philosophy.--Philosophy.
Machiavelli, Niccolò,--1469-1527.
Notes:
"First published 2004. First paperback edition 2007"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-336) and index. Donated by the History Club Book-A-Thon in honor of Mike Matthes, Graceland University, 2008.
Contents:
Hamilton then and now. Prepared to be not good, 1781-1788 -- At Washington's side again, 1789 -- Hamilton versus the Virginians, 1789-1791 -- The Nootka Sound Crisis, part one : the Morris Mission -- Nootka Sound, part two : the view from New York -- Liaisons dangereuses, 1791-1792 -- The birth of American neutrality, February-May 1793 -- "A most distressing dilemma," May-December 1793 -- Hamilton and the crisis of 1794 -- The Jay Treaty -- Return to not-so-private life, 1794-1795 -- "Camillus" into the breach -- A high-stakes game : Washington's farewell address, 1796 -- Transition to the new regime, 1796-1797 -- Hamilton and Adams : the background -- Hamilton's "grand plan" -- Hamilton and his army, part one, 1797-1798 -- Hamilton and his army, part two, 1798-1799 -- Killing two birds with one stone, 1799 -- 1800 and after -- From fortune into providence -- Conclusion : Hamilton then and now.
ISBN:
0521708745 (pbk.)
9780521708746 (pbk.)
Locations:
PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

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