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Description
In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award—winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison–confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the... read more
Cast of Characters/Important People
Memorable Quotes
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“If that means the United States is founded on a contradiction, then so be it”
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“In its most familiar form, dominant in the nineteenth century, the tension assumes a constitutional appearance as a conflict between state and federal sovereignty”
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“Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776”
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“The revolutionary generation found a way to contain the explosive energies of the debate in the form of an ongoing argument or dialogue that was eventually institutionalized and rendered safe by the creation of political parties”
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“With that one bloody exception, we have been living with it successfully for over two hundred years”
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“With the American Revolution, as with all revolutions, different factions came together in common cause to overthrow the reigning regime, then discovered in the aftermath of their triumph that they had fundamentally different and politically incompatible notions of what they intended”
First Sentence
On the morning of July 11, 1804, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton were rowed across the Hudson River in separate boats to a secluded spot near Weehawken, New Jersey.
Table of Contents
Authors & Contributors
- Joseph J. Ellis (Author)
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize (2001: History)
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