Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans...

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Thomas J. Dilorenzo

Hamilton's Curse

How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans...

Thomas J. Dilorenzo

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Three Rivers Press
15 May 2010

History

For readers of DiLorenzo's books like The Real Lincoln and How Capitalism Saved America, and for conservative readers of books like FDR's Folly and 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask.

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton--two of the most influential Founding Fathers--were also fierce rivals with two opposing political philosophies and two radically different visions for America.

While Jefferson is better

remembered today, it is actually Hamilton's political legacy that has triumphed--a legacy that has subverted the Constitution and transformed the federal government

into the very leviathan state that our forefathers fought against in the American

Revolution. How did we go from the Jeffersonian ideal of limited government to the

bloated imperialist system of Hamilton's design? Acclaimed economic historian, Thomas

J. DiLorenzoreveals

how Hamilton, first as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and later as the

nation's first and most influential treasury secretary, masterfully promoted an agenda

of nationalist glory and interventionist economics. These core beliefs did not die

with Hamilton in his fatal duel with Aaron Burr, but were carried on through his political

heirs.

The Hamiltonian legacy wrested control into the hands of the federal government

by inventing the myth of the Constitution's ""implied powers, transforming state governments from Jeffersonian bulwarks of liberty to beggars for federal crumbs. It alsodevised a national banking system that imposes boom-and-bust cycles on the American

economy; saddled Americans with a massive national debt and oppressive taxation, and pushed economic policies that lined the pockets of the wealthy and created a government system built on graft, spoils, and patronage.

By

debunking the Hamiltonian myths, DiLorenzo

exposes an uncomfortable truth- the American people are no longer the masters of

their government but its servants. Only by restoring a system based on Jeffersonian

ideals can Hamilton's curse be lifted, at last.

By: Thomas J. Dilorenzo
Imprint: Three Rivers Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 215g
ISBN: 9780307382856
ISBN 10: 0307382850
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 May 2010
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

THOMAS J. DILORENZO is the author ofThe Real LincolnandHow Capitalism Saved America. A professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland and a senior fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, he has written for theWall Street Journal,USA Today, theWashington Post,Reader's Digest,Barron's, and many other publications. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.