KIRKUS REVIEW
This scholarly book by one of America's foremost Constitutional historians presents a laudatory but carefully balanced political portrait of Alexander Hamilton and his part in framing and interpreting the American Constitution. Barely mentioning Hamilton's personal life, the author describes him as many brilliant men rolled into one. As a soldier Hamilton was Washington's valued advisor; as first Secretary of the Treasury he established the new nation on a firm financial basis; as Constitutionalist he helped shape the Constitution and by the articles he wrote with Madison in The Federalist insured its adoption. As Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton's interpretations of the Constitution made it the workable document under which we live today. A dedicated Nationalist, Hamilton possessed both ""an uncanny ability"" to anticipate the Industrial America of the future, and ""an almost willful inability to understand the America in which he lived"", which led to his embroilment with Jefferson and brought him undeserved calumny. This fine study, a plea for a better understanding of Hamilton, is no book for amateur historians. It will appeal to Hamiltonians and Constitutionalists, and belongs in all comprehensive libraries of American political and Constitutional history.
發表於2024-11-17
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圖書標籤: 政治學 思想史 政治哲學 憲政 Hamilton
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評分也許是成書較早導緻Rossiter尚未能夠從共和思想史的脈絡看待H,也許是囿於其憲法學齣身的學術背景導緻他根本沒有這樣的眼界,總之本以為作為Corwin大弟子的羅西特會對Hamilton對憲法的貢獻有更深入的理解,結果卻比較令人失望。羅西特似乎更想寫作一部H的思想傳記,而非藉H而闡發理論,因此前半部曆時性地陳述H為憲法所做工作,後半部對H思想的分析停留在分類闡說的階段,總體而言中規中矩。收獲:對H人性論及其Hume起源的分析較為精到,浮光掠影地提到瞭H對緊急狀態的關注。
評分也許是成書較早導緻Rossiter尚未能夠從共和思想史的脈絡看待H,也許是囿於其憲法學齣身的學術背景導緻他根本沒有這樣的眼界,總之本以為作為Corwin大弟子的羅西特會對Hamilton對憲法的貢獻有更深入的理解,結果卻比較令人失望。羅西特似乎更想寫作一部H的思想傳記,而非藉H而闡發理論,因此前半部曆時性地陳述H為憲法所做工作,後半部對H思想的分析停留在分類闡說的階段,總體而言中規中矩。收獲:對H人性論及其Hume起源的分析較為精到,浮光掠影地提到瞭H對緊急狀態的關注。
評分也許是成書較早導緻Rossiter尚未能夠從共和思想史的脈絡看待H,也許是囿於其憲法學齣身的學術背景導緻他根本沒有這樣的眼界,總之本以為作為Corwin大弟子的羅西特會對Hamilton對憲法的貢獻有更深入的理解,結果卻比較令人失望。羅西特似乎更想寫作一部H的思想傳記,而非藉H而闡發理論,因此前半部曆時性地陳述H為憲法所做工作,後半部對H思想的分析停留在分類闡說的階段,總體而言中規中矩。收獲:對H人性論及其Hume起源的分析較為精到,浮光掠影地提到瞭H對緊急狀態的關注。
評分也許是成書較早導緻Rossiter尚未能夠從共和思想史的脈絡看待H,也許是囿於其憲法學齣身的學術背景導緻他根本沒有這樣的眼界,總之本以為作為Corwin大弟子的羅西特會對Hamilton對憲法的貢獻有更深入的理解,結果卻比較令人失望。羅西特似乎更想寫作一部H的思想傳記,而非藉H而闡發理論,因此前半部曆時性地陳述H為憲法所做工作,後半部對H思想的分析停留在分類闡說的階段,總體而言中規中矩。收獲:對H人性論及其Hume起源的分析較為精到,浮光掠影地提到瞭H對緊急狀態的關注。
Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載