American Machiavelli Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U S Foreign Policy 1st Edition by John Lamberton Harper 0521834856 9780521834858

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ISBN 10: 0521834856 

ISBN 13: 9780521834858

Author: John Lamberton Harper

Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation. This is the first detailed narrative study of his foreign policy role and ideas to appear in more than thirty years. It focuses on Hamilton’s controversial activities as a key member of President George Washington’s cabinet and as an aspiring military leader in the 1790s, a decade of profound division over the shape and powers of the Federal government, and US policy toward the warring powers of Europe. Drawing parallels between Hamilton and the Florentine diplomatist and thinker, Niccolò Machiavelli, prize-winning historian John Lamberton Harper offers an insightful and accessible account of the origins of Hamilton’s outlook, his bitterly personal rivalries with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and his indispensable part in designing and implementing US foreign policy.

Table of contents:

PART I THE COMING OF NECESSITY

1. From Providence into Fortune, 1757 (?)–1781

2. Prepared To Be Not Good, 1781–1788

PART II BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN
3. At Washington’s Side Again, 1789
4. Hamilton versus the Virginians, 1789–1791
5. The Nootka Sound Crisis, Part One: The Morris Mission
6. Nootka Sound, Part Two: The View from New York
7. Liaisons Dangereuses, 1791–1792

PART III SEIZING THE HELM
8. The Birth of American Neutrality, February–May 1793
9. “A Most Distressing Dilemma,” May–December 1793
10. Hamilton and the Crisis of 1794
11. The Jay Treaty

PART IV INFORMAL ADVISER TO THE PRINCE
12. Return to Not-So-Private Life, 1794–1795
13. “Camillus” into the Breach
14. A High-Stakes Game: Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796
15. Transition to the New Regime, 1796–1797

PART V A PRINCE IN HIS OWN RIGHT?
16. Hamilton and Adams: The Background
17. Hamilton’s “Grand Plan”
18. Hamilton and His Army, Part One, 1797–1798
19. Hamilton and His Army, Part Two, 1798–1799
20. Killing Two Birds with One Stone, 1799

PART VI THE LESSER OF EVILS
21. 1800 and After
22. From Fortune into Providence
Conclusion: Hamilton Then and Now

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