Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth.(Book Review) (book review)

History: Review of New Books, March, 2003 by Whaley, Richard

Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 352 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-1157-6 Publication Date: February 2002

Stephen F. Knott is an assistant professor and research fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. His previous work includes Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency (1996). In Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth, Knott explores the changing interpretation of the meaning of Alexander Hamilton's political life and times to both politicians and intellectuals throughout the course of American history. Knott reveals what friends and enemies have made of Hamilton in assigning selected significance to the U.S. national past and hence to its present.

Knott posits that Hamilton,...

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