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Cargando... Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Foundingpor Darren M. Staloff
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book looks at three American founding fathers (Hamilton, Adams, & Jefferson) through the lens of the Enlightenment and political thought. While this book was by no means my first about any of these men, it did add to my understanding of them and how they approached the American founding and politics during the years following the American Revolution. My admiration for Hamilton and Adams (especially Adams) increased, and my opinion of Jefferson sunk to a new low (it seems the more I learn about him, the less I like him). Overall, this was an engaging read and I learned a lot of about political thought, Enlightenment politics, and the early American republic from this book. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Alexander Hamilton, the worldly New Yorker; John Adams, the curmudgeonly Yankee; Thomas Jefferson, the visionary Virginia squire--each steered their public lives under the guideposts and constraints of Enlightenment principles, and for each their relationship to the politics of Enlightenment was transformed by the struggle for American independence. Repeated humiliation on America's battlefields banished Hamilton's youthful idealism, leaving him a fervent disciple of enlightened realpolitikand the nation's leading exponent of modern statecraft. After ten years in Europe's diplomatic trenches, Adams's embrace of the politics of Enlightenment became increasingly that of the gadfly of his country. And Jefferson's frustrations as a reformer and then Revolutionary governor in Virginia led him to go beyond his previous enlightened worldview and articulate a new and radical Romantic politics of principle. Hamilton, Adams, Jeffersonis a marvelous reminder that the world of ideas is inextricably bound up in the long trajectory of historical events. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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