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"american emperor" his wonderful book about aaron burr and the various conspiracies that deal with alexander hamilton, the alleged attempt to separate from the united states to western part of the united states and the great trial presided over by john marshall. is also there is an event in the book that i think you need to read about, page 67 actually in which the first proto- aronberg i tried to separate florida from the spanish and create an independent empire. rubin mcdaniel, and samuel. they lasted about a week. [laughter] before the spanish showed up and chase them away, but the book is full of great stories. david stewart has become a great popular of history. in some academic languages, popular history is not thought of very highly but it has become a great art form in the hands of people like david mccullough and edward morris and david stewart and some academic historians have become great popular historians like david hackett fischer, barry strauss in the library, for instance john sperling. it's about narrative, it's about telling a story because that is what makes him popular bu
"american emperor" his wonderful book about aaron burr and the various conspiracies that deal with alexander hamilton, the alleged attempt to separate from the united states to western part of the united states and the great trial presided over by john marshall. is also there is an event in the book that i think you need to read about, page 67 actually in which the first proto- aronberg i tried to separate florida from the spanish and create an independent empire. rubin mcdaniel, and...
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he thought george washington was sort of dumb, he thought alexander hamilton was really unpresentable, just -- he was a bore, just was unacceptable in his behavior. and he thought thomas jefferson was a coward. he, in his personal life, made some unconventional choices. he married a woman ten years older than he. certainly not the custom at the time. she was a widow, at the time, of a british officer. that was a controversial thing to do. in fact, when they had started keeping company together, the british officer was still alive. [laughter] he did, somewhat conveniently for the marriage, pass away of a tropical fever, and burr was in no way accountable for that. but he was always in his life an advocate of women's rights. he felt women were at least the equal of men in balance, if not the superiors. he educated his daughter the way any young man would have been educated. she was often described as the best educated woman in america. she knew greek and latin and could converse comfortably with everyone. um, he also was an avid ladies' man. his wife died when he was 37, and he did not
he thought george washington was sort of dumb, he thought alexander hamilton was really unpresentable, just -- he was a bore, just was unacceptable in his behavior. and he thought thomas jefferson was a coward. he, in his personal life, made some unconventional choices. he married a woman ten years older than he. certainly not the custom at the time. she was a widow, at the time, of a british officer. that was a controversial thing to do. in fact, when they had started keeping company together,...
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i think to some degree that role shifts to alexander hamilton. but in the beginning it's james madison, and one of the first letters of congratulations he gets, congratulations on a majority of a respectable number of your peers, now help me write my inaugural address. he's the first author of washington's first inaugural address. congress asks madison to draft the response to washington, and madison writes this response, and he's like, wow, that was such a good speech, i don't even know how to respond. [laughter] and then washington says, well, i have to send a reply to congress, will you help me write it? and, of course, madison was happy to oblige him. and i offer that in "founding rivals" because it is a test to the high standing that james madison pnac there was an enormous amount of debate over what a bill of rights would look like. in fact many of the state ratification conventions, virginia included, that recommendations for congress along with the recommendations we think we should pass these amendments in the first session there were li
i think to some degree that role shifts to alexander hamilton. but in the beginning it's james madison, and one of the first letters of congratulations he gets, congratulations on a majority of a respectable number of your peers, now help me write my inaugural address. he's the first author of washington's first inaugural address. congress asks madison to draft the response to washington, and madison writes this response, and he's like, wow, that was such a good speech, i don't even know how to...
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i think to some degree that role shifts to alexander hamilton. but in the beginning it's james madison, and one of the first letters of congratulations he gets, congratulations on a majority of a respectable number of your peers, now help me write my inaugural address. he's the first author of washington's first inaugural address. congress asks madison to draft the response to washington, and madison writes this response, and he's like, wow, that was such a good speech, i don't even know how to respond. [laughter] and then washington says, well, i have to send a reply to congress, will you help me write it? and, of course, madison was happy to oblige him. and i offer that in "founding rivals" because it is a test to the high standing that james madison >> we were going to focus on fundamental liberties. madison here is trying to take the wind out of the sails of the anti-federal movement, so he's trying to calculate exactly what kind of measures are going to do that. first, you can look to the rights of free englishmen, the great traditions in en
i think to some degree that role shifts to alexander hamilton. but in the beginning it's james madison, and one of the first letters of congratulations he gets, congratulations on a majority of a respectable number of your peers, now help me write my inaugural address. he's the first author of washington's first inaugural address. congress asks madison to draft the response to washington, and madison writes this response, and he's like, wow, that was such a good speech, i don't even know how to...
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he thought alexander hamilton was an presentable. that he was of four andhe w thought thomas jefferson was a coward. and his personal life he made unconventional choice is. he married doublemint 10 years older than he. not the custom at the time. he was a widow -- she was a widow of the british officer. that was controversial. he did pass a way of a tropical fever and he was inouye accountable for thaten but always in his life anf advocate of women's rights think you they rallies but equalof of men if not the superior in educated his daughter the way in a young man would be educated issuesghte often described as the best educated woman in america who could speak latin and could reverse comfortably with everyone.ft he was an avid lazy-- ladies' man. he did not remarry from 37wi through 77 they gave him 40fe years of bachelor good which he took the advantage of. when of his longtime friend said it is remarkable colonel burr achieved as much as he did resolve the time he spent pursuing women. it is very difficult to capture over the cen
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in fact, you've got on one side sort of the john adams, alexander hamilton's, the conservatives who, when you go back and read their remarks, they wanted a monarchy. they wanted a hereditary senate. they liked the system as it existed in england. on the other hand, you have been franklin and thomas jefferson who said we want one house in congress to be elected every year, a real people's house, and want an executive committee. we don't even want the presidency. when you go back and read, much more like what was happening in the french revolution. there was real problems with both sides. one, you've got. one, you've got sort of a tyranny by monarchy, and the other you have a tyranny by the masses, right? so james madison is credited with creating the grand compromise, the constitution, where he said neither left nor the right, as they existed in 1789, are going to dominate. we are not going to create a system that favors one or the other. we are going to create a system that, in fact, is as level a playing field on which the various ideologies can wrestle, as we possibly can. certainl
in fact, you've got on one side sort of the john adams, alexander hamilton's, the conservatives who, when you go back and read their remarks, they wanted a monarchy. they wanted a hereditary senate. they liked the system as it existed in england. on the other hand, you have been franklin and thomas jefferson who said we want one house in congress to be elected every year, a real people's house, and want an executive committee. we don't even want the presidency. when you go back and read, much...
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in fact, you got a one by john on alexander hamilton and conservatives, who when you go back and read their remarks, they wanted a monarchy. they wanted a hereditary cynic. they like the system has existed in england. on the other hand come you had been franklin and thomas jefferson who said, we want one house and congress to be a let it every year, a real peoples house and we want an executive committee. we don't even want a presidency. when you go back and read it sounds much more like what was happening in the french revolution. there were problems with those sites. one come you got a tyranny by monarchy and the others is a tyranny by the masters. and so, james madison is credited with creating the grand compromise, the constitution, where he said neither the left nor the right as they existed in 1789 are going to dominate. we are not going to create a system that favors one or the other. we are going to create a system that in fact is as level a playing field on which the various ideologies can wrestle as we possibly can. certainly when they constructed this, the senate was going
in fact, you got a one by john on alexander hamilton and conservatives, who when you go back and read their remarks, they wanted a monarchy. they wanted a hereditary cynic. they like the system has existed in england. on the other hand come you had been franklin and thomas jefferson who said, we want one house and congress to be a let it every year, a real peoples house and we want an executive committee. we don't even want a presidency. when you go back and read it sounds much more like what...
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we walk around, all of us, every day, for example, quoting shakespeare, alexander pope, but we don't even know it. what we read shapes how we think. our vocabulary shapes what we think. we think with words, and when we have a student body whose vocabularies are declines. the total number of words they know and use in everyday language is declining. we have a very serious problem. it has to be faced. one of the best of all ways is to make sure we know what they are reading and to encourage them to read the best work possible. we have to encourage the best teachers to show them what they love. showing what they love is what the great teachers have all known how to do. now, in my book about the americans who went to paris, i'm writing about a generation beginning about 1830, extending on into 1900, really two generations, who went to paris not because they were alien identitied with american life or american culture, not because they were angry or feeling an overwhelming sense of self-pity, but the contrary. they were going there to improve themselves, better serve their country, and th
we walk around, all of us, every day, for example, quoting shakespeare, alexander pope, but we don't even know it. what we read shapes how we think. our vocabulary shapes what we think. we think with words, and when we have a student body whose vocabularies are declines. the total number of words they know and use in everyday language is declining. we have a very serious problem. it has to be faced. one of the best of all ways is to make sure we know what they are reading and to encourage them...
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the vote in new york was going to be so close that alexander hamilton kept writing madison saying all is lost if you don't pass this constitution in virginia. no pressure. [laughter] but everything is lost. and, in fact, new york only ratifies the constitution a month after virginia and only then by three votes. and only because the federalists agree to this unanimous declaration that they're going to call for a new constitutional convention unless and until there's a bill of rights that comes out of the first congress. so what the anti-federalists do is let's set this aside. that measure fail bed by 88- failed by 88-80 votes. james madison didn't even know if he was going to participate in the ratification convention. indeed, if anti-federalists had simply scheduled it earlier, madison probably wouldn't have been able to make it. in fact, he gives his first speech in a long career in public service, gives his first speech in support of his candidacy to be a part of this ratification convention, and aren't we glad that he decided to participate? because the constitution gets out of th
the vote in new york was going to be so close that alexander hamilton kept writing madison saying all is lost if you don't pass this constitution in virginia. no pressure. [laughter] but everything is lost. and, in fact, new york only ratifies the constitution a month after virginia and only then by three votes. and only because the federalists agree to this unanimous declaration that they're going to call for a new constitutional convention unless and until there's a bill of rights that comes...
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alexander hamilton considered national debt to be a good thing and encourage the federal government to take on the revolutionary war debt of the states. hamilton did this with great calculation because the -- he understood creditors make three interest in the success of whatever individuals or enterprises owe them money. of the wealthy people of the united states were owed money by the federal government then it is in their interest to ensure the success of the federal government. so they would believe it would be a natural blessing to ensure the success of the government in the early 20th century the u.s. and covering gauged in dollar diplomacy. in the essence of dollar diplomacy to encourage especially regimes in latin america to transfer the debt that they owed to the european banks and bankers to american banks and bankers. this would eliminate the temptation of the european government to secure the debt and send in the gunboats in make sure the interest of the latin american countries now look to new york rather than europe. that has been something that has been used for political
alexander hamilton considered national debt to be a good thing and encourage the federal government to take on the revolutionary war debt of the states. hamilton did this with great calculation because the -- he understood creditors make three interest in the success of whatever individuals or enterprises owe them money. of the wealthy people of the united states were owed money by the federal government then it is in their interest to ensure the success of the federal government. so they would...
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you can start with alexander and go to the soviet union. we did create a constitution, created in islamic, and that has never been done before. and so far, you know, you would have a starting point. but how to create this national unity approach, that's the critical issue here. and how to include the pashtuns in a meaningful way? that, you seem to be optimistic, and i would like to a little more of a reason, why you think it's possible, and why it is useful to reach that goal, to drop, let's say, the bonn conference in december which will try to make an effort to stabilize and demilitarize the whole country, that's what we have to do. demilitarize the whole thing. the military can only achieve so much. and the issue, you know, was much more of a civilian effort, and maybe some other forces, regular military. demilitarize the whole country, and so i don't get the point of using we have to drop the one conference, because, you know, suppose we would be able to make a real push for demilitarization and reduce the role of western powers to a no
you can start with alexander and go to the soviet union. we did create a constitution, created in islamic, and that has never been done before. and so far, you know, you would have a starting point. but how to create this national unity approach, that's the critical issue here. and how to include the pashtuns in a meaningful way? that, you seem to be optimistic, and i would like to a little more of a reason, why you think it's possible, and why it is useful to reach that goal, to drop, let's...
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alexander hamilton considered the national debt a good thing. he encourage the federal government to take on the revolutionary war-and hamilton did this with great calculation because he understood creditors have a great interest in the success of what individuals or enterprises of the money and if the wealthy people of the united states, bondholders, if they vote -- if they were owed money by the federal government then it would be in their interest to ensure the success of the federal government. so hamilton believed the federal debt would be a natural blessing. it would insure the success of the new federal government. in the early 20th century the u.s. government engaged in dollar diplomacy. the essence of the dollar diplomacy was to encourage especially regimes in latin america to transfer of the debt that they owed european banks and bankers to american banks and bankers. this would eliminate the temptation of the european government to secure the debt owed to their bankers to send in gunboats and make sure the interests of these latin ame
alexander hamilton considered the national debt a good thing. he encourage the federal government to take on the revolutionary war-and hamilton did this with great calculation because he understood creditors have a great interest in the success of what individuals or enterprises of the money and if the wealthy people of the united states, bondholders, if they vote -- if they were owed money by the federal government then it would be in their interest to ensure the success of the federal...
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alexander hamilton, considered national debt to be good thing. he encouraged the federal -- hamilton did this with great calculation because he understood that creditors take great interest in the success of whatever individuals or enterprises or the money. and if the wealthy people of the united states, these were the bondholders, if they became interested, if they were owed money by the federal government, then it would be in their interest to ensure the success of the federal government. so hamilton was one who believed that a federal debt would be a national blessing. it would ensure the success of the new federal government. in early 20 century, the u.s. government engage in what is called dollar diplomacy. the essence of dollar diplomacy was to encourage especially regimes in latin america, to transfer the debt that they owed to european banks and bankers to american banks and bankers. this would eliminate the temptation of the european government to secure the debts owed to their bankers, and it would make sure that the interests of these
alexander hamilton, considered national debt to be good thing. he encouraged the federal -- hamilton did this with great calculation because he understood that creditors take great interest in the success of whatever individuals or enterprises or the money. and if the wealthy people of the united states, these were the bondholders, if they became interested, if they were owed money by the federal government, then it would be in their interest to ensure the success of the federal government. so...
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the biographies because i wanted to know what was it in a person's life that had led them to become alexander hamilton? so i liked finding out the clue in their childhood or adolescence. beyond that though, the reason i really like to write about writers is i like to figure out what they are doing, their craft, decisions that they make, and biography as a genre gives me an opportunity that i think life. i learned a lot about my own, by extending some compassion for people's mistakes or trying to understand why they took the wrong turn or why they love this person and not that person. it makes me think about what my life has been like and how none of us come into this world with a blueprint knowing how to live a perfect existence that we are making it up as we go, and he was very much right in saying that life is made up of a series of accidents and we are all involved in this random exercise of trying to get along in life. other questions? >> did his brother to place blame on him or make him feel like it was partially his fault? >> he never expressed any kind of connection between his brother
the biographies because i wanted to know what was it in a person's life that had led them to become alexander hamilton? so i liked finding out the clue in their childhood or adolescence. beyond that though, the reason i really like to write about writers is i like to figure out what they are doing, their craft, decisions that they make, and biography as a genre gives me an opportunity that i think life. i learned a lot about my own, by extending some compassion for people's mistakes or trying...
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new england threatened in the 1990's over the alexander hamilton banking plan. people out west including henry clay who say to congress -- look f you don't ratify the treaty of the louisiana purchase, we're going succeed from the union, buy from france and set up our own country. in the war in 1814, the new england states get a little conference of hartford, connecticut and flirt with the idea of suss session. so there's all of these forces going on. and i guess after jackson's victory, the glue that comes to hold the country together, i stouth you that without this war and without that glue, then the american union may not survive until the civil war and it may not have come back together as strongly after. other questions? >> you mentioned spain is an ally of britain. that was after they were flown in. there were standing ships involved in opposing -- >> >> yes, things change. and in 1813, duke of wellington engage in the forces on the aye beer i don't know peninsula trying to push them back across the peer niece. and in fact robert frost who leads the invasio
new england threatened in the 1990's over the alexander hamilton banking plan. people out west including henry clay who say to congress -- look f you don't ratify the treaty of the louisiana purchase, we're going succeed from the union, buy from france and set up our own country. in the war in 1814, the new england states get a little conference of hartford, connecticut and flirt with the idea of suss session. so there's all of these forces going on. and i guess after jackson's victory, the...
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it was written by alexander hamilton where he said, you know, altogether plausibly that if we became a more democratic system given that the majority of the country is have-nots, they would use their political power to try to take from the haves. and that the great thing about the supreme court is that it would try to protect the, the property of the haves against redistributive legislation that would shift it to the have-nots. it's also the case that the various impediments that i was mentioning to legislation are a way of protecting the status quo. and i think that the most important status quo that a number -- not all, but a number of the framers were concerned about -- was protecting the current distribution of wealth and trying to prevent the majority from changing that distribution. now, as i said a few moments ago, the minority that's most strongly protected by our structural constitution is the residents of small states because they have this dis proportionate power in the senate. and i think it would be telling that if a proponent of what we generally view as affirmative act
it was written by alexander hamilton where he said, you know, altogether plausibly that if we became a more democratic system given that the majority of the country is have-nots, they would use their political power to try to take from the haves. and that the great thing about the supreme court is that it would try to protect the, the property of the haves against redistributive legislation that would shift it to the have-nots. it's also the case that the various impediments that i was...