Chernow's Arguments Against Hamilton Summary

Chernow demonstrates how Washington kept on supporting Hamilton, who at this point had numerous adversaries and was the objective of a several investigations as treasury secretary. Other Founders contradicted Hamilton's foreign policy as well. The new party (the Democratic Republicans), drove by Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, extolled France for its revolution. Chernow describes Hamilton’s prophecy:

Then again, England, for all its government, was still the freest European nation. It was in the early phases of its Industrial Revolution, and Hamilton needed to imitate that model. Nevertheless, despite being censured as a monarchist or Anglophile, he looked for a British brain drain by plotting to employ away supervisors and laborers required in the British textile revolution. Chernow concludes: …show more content…
He regularly commends America as a majority rules system, despite the fact that he makes it clear that Hamilton considered democracy to be against rights and a road to mob rule. Chernow likewise invests a lot of energy addressing nonessential matters. His examination of the rascal Aaron Burr, who killed Hamilton in a duel for instance, continues for many pages, though The Federalist Papers, which Jefferson