Fame and the Founding Fathers

Résumé du livre

Introduction / Trevor Colbourn -- Douglass Adair: A Personal Memoir / Caroline Robbins -- Douglass Adair and the Historiography of Republicanism / Robert E. Shalhope -- Part I. ARTICLES AND ESSAYS -- 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? (With Marvin Harvey) -- The Jefferson Scandals -- Rumbold's Dying Speech, 1685, and Jefferson'sLast Words on Democracy, 1826 -- The Mystery of the Horn Papers (With Arthur Pierce Middleton) -- Part II. REVIEW ESSAYS, NOTES, AND DOCUMENTS -- The New Thomas Jefferson -- The Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson -- The Federalist Papers -- Hamiltonian Sidelights: I. Hamilton on the Louisiana Purchase: A Newly IdentifiedEditorial from the New-York Evening Post --Hamiltonian Sidelights: II. A Note on Certain of Hamilton's Pseudonyms --Hamiltonian Sidelights: III. What was Hamilton's "Favorite Song"? -- Clio Bemused -- Douglass Adair: A Select List of Writings -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Council Meeting of the Instituteof Early American History and Culture, Spring 1951 -- Council Meeting of the Instituteof Early American History and Culture, Spring 1965.