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American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy.(Book Review)

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From: Journal of Southern History
Date: 20050801
Author:Combs, Jerald A.

American Machiavelli: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy. By John Lamberton Harper. (New York and other cities: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv, 347. $30.00, ISBN 0-521-83485-6.)

In this book, John Lamberton Harper juxtaposes the strategic thought and actions of Alexander Hamilton, the ultimate American realist, with those of the Italian father of modern realism, Niccolo Machiavelli. While not based on wide multiarchival research, Harper's book uses the vast array of published documents on the founders of the American republic and an ...

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