Alexander Hamilton
The Birth of American Finance
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy By Thomas K. McCraw (Harvard University Press, 485 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
Why Speakers of the House Should Never Be President
The Mirage
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Neutralized
The Company Of Giants
Madison and Jefferson By Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg (Random House, 809 pp., $35) READ MORE >>
Constitutionalism For Me, Not For Thee
Rick Hertzberg quotes Alexander Hamilton arguing against a supermajority requirement: READ MORE >>
The Great American Argument
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787 - 1788 By Pauline Maier (Simon & Schuster, 589 pp., $30) READ MORE >>
Are you Receiving Me?
Speaking of the news that the Awakening in Iraq may not end the way that it started (see this NYT article, a good Matt Yglesias post, and my remarks about politicians and policy)... READ MORE >>
It's All About The Hamiltons
A couple days ago, I quoted a bit from Dana Milbank's column, where he showed that Tea Party honcho Dick Armey's historical knowledge is less than firm: READ MORE >>
