American Machiavelli Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy [Paperback]

Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation.This book is a narrative study of the career of Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), the illegitimate West Indian emigrant who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and President George Washington's closest collaborator. It focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as a foreign policy adviser and aspiring military leader during the 1790s, a decade of bitter division over the role of the Federal government in the economy. Drawing parallels between Hamilton and the sixteenth century Italian writer and political adviser, Niccolò Machiavelli, prize-winning historian John Lamberton Harper provides and original and highly readable account of Hamilton's famous clashes with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and his key role in defining the national security strategy of the United States.This book is a narrative study of the career of Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), the illegitimate West Indian emigrant who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and President George Washington's closest collaborator. It focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as a foreign policy adviser and aspiring military leader during the 1790s, a decade of bitter division over the role of the Federal government in the economy. Drawing parallels between Hamilton and the sixteenth century Italian writer and political adviser, Niccolò Machiavelli, prize-winning historian John Lamberton Harper provides and original and highly readable account of Hamilton's famous clashes with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and his key role in defining the national security strategy of the United States.Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) was an illegitimate West Indian emigrant who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. American Machiavelli focuses on Hamilton's controversial activitl“!