Category: Biography

Copyright/published Year: 2004 by Cambridge Univ

ISBN: 0521834856

Binding: Hardcover

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) was an illegitimate West Indian ì emigrant who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. ì American Machiavelli focuses on Hamilton's controversial ì activities as foreign policy adviser and aspiring military ì leader. In the first major study of his foreign policy role in 30 ì years, John Lamberton Harper describes a decade of bitter ì division over the role of the Federal government in the economy ì during the 1790s and draws parallels between Hamilton and the ì sixteenth century Italian political adviser, Niccolo Machiavelli. ì Harper provides an original and highly readable account of ì Hamiltonas famous clashes with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, ì and his key role in defining the U.S. national security ì strategy.
 
About the Author
John Lamberton Harper is Professor of Foreign Policy and European ì Studies at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center. He is the ì author of America and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945-1948 ì (Cambridge 1986), winner of the 1987 Marraro Prize from the ì Society for Italian Historical Studies, and American Visions of ì Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. ì Asheson (Cambridge 1994), winner of the 1995 Robert Ferrell Prize ì from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. His ì articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, ì including The American Historical Review, The Journal of American ì History, The Times Literary Supplement and Foreign Affairs.