Reviews for An address delivered before the New York Historical Society on its seventy-ninth anniversary, Tuesday, November 27, 1883

The average rating for An address delivered before the New York Historical Society on its seventy-ninth anniversary, Tuesday, November 27, 1883 based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-07-27 00:00:00 Donne Viau This was an excellent short biography of Hamilton, but it was very focused on arguing that the Anglophilia / Francophilia of Hamilton and Jefferson has been overdrawn by historians. There were parts that I disagreed with, but that isn't unusual with historical books like this.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-12-15 00:00:00 Kevin Massie An excellent short biography of Hamilton, emphasizing his contributions to American foreign relations. Kaplan argues that the contrasts between Hamilton and Jefferson have been overdrawn by historians (even as they were by the two men themselves). Both favored policies intended to help the US develop into a power independent of the control of any European nation. While Hamilton preferred a closer relationship with Britain and a greater distance from France, he was at most an "ambivalent Anglophile," seeing that relationship as beneficial to the US, and less to so Britain.