Hamilton Versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration: Completing the Founding or Betraying the Founding?

By the middle of 1792, just a little more than three years after America's new government under the Constitution had been set in motion, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson - President George Washington's two most important cabinet secretaries and two of the most eminent men among the American founders - had become open and bitter political enemies. Their dispute was not personal but political in the highest sense. Each believed that the debate between them was over regime principles. Each believed that he was protecting the newly established republic, and that the other was laboring to destroy it. Carson Holloway's Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington Administration examines Hamilton and Jefferson's differences, seeking to explain why these great founders came to disagree so profoundly and vehemently about the political project to which both were committed and had dedicated so much thought and effort.

Author: Carson Holloway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/05/2016
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.01w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9781107521117

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2016

About the Author
Holloway, Carson: - Carson Holloway is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Omaha and is the author of several works of political philosophy. He has been a Visiting Fellow in Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and a Visiting Fellow in American Political Thought at the Heritage Foundation. His scholarly articles have appeared in the Review of Politics, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, and Perspectives on Political Science, and he has also written for First Things, Public Discourse, and National Review.