Author:
Adair, Douglass.
Imprint:Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, [1998]
Descriptionxliv, 451 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Originally published: New York : Norton for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, 1974.
Note:Douglass Adair: a personal memoir / Caroline Robbins. - Douglass Adair and the historiography of Republicanism / Robert E. Shalhope. - Fame and the Founding Fathers. - The authorship of the disputed Federalist Papers. - The Tenth Federalist revisited. - "That politics may be reduced to a science": David Hume, James Madison, and the Tenth Federalist. - "Experience must be our only guide": history, democratic theory, and the United States Constitution. - James Madison. - Was Alexander Hamilton a Christian statesman? / Douglass Adair and Marvin Harvey. - The Jefferson scandals. - Rumbold's dying speech, 1685, and Jefferson's last words on democracy, 1826. - The mystery of the Horn papers / Douglass Adair and Arthur Pierce Middleton. - The new Thomas Jefferson. - The catalogue of the library of Thomas Jefferson. - The Federalist Papers. - Hamiltonian Sidelights: Hamilton on the Louisiana Purchase: a newly identified editorial from the New-York Evening Post. - A note on certain of Hamilton's pseudonyms. - What was Hamilton's "favorite song"? - Clio bemused.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
