3. He said that Hamilton is brilliant, brash, charming, intelligent, a good orator and writer and also he was good explaining his ideas.
“ Hamilton -brilliant, brash and charming- had the self-reliant reflexes of someone who had always had to live by his wits” (lines 41-42)
“ His overwhelming intelligence petrified Jefferson and his followers” (lines 42-43)
“ As an orator, Hamilton could speak extemporaneously for hours on end” ( lines 43-44)
“As a writer, he could crank out 5,000- or 10,000- word memos overnight.” ( line 45)
“ He had a true zest for debate and never left anyone guessing where he stood.” (line 50)
7. One of the scandals were that Hamilton, even though he was married and had 4 children, had entered into a yearlong affair with a married woman, who was 23 years old when it began.
“ In 1797 a journalist named James T. Callender exposed that …show more content…
“ in a 95- page pamphlet, Hamilton confessed to the affair at what many regarded as inordinate length”. ( lines 158- 159)
And Jefferson never confirmed or denied the accusation.
“ Jefferson never confirmed or denied Callender’s story”. (Lines 171- 172)
I think their answers were consistent with what I know about them from this text because Hamilton always seemed to be a man who liked to talk and write as Chernow describes in lines 41 through 51, so he decided to just write a lot of pages to respond to the accusation.
While Jefferson didn't say anything, because as previously in the text, he just didn't care about a lot of things and he didn't like to talk or write as much as Hamilton.
8. The final paragraph is hard to believe, because Chernow made us see while we were reading the text that Hamilton and Jefferson didn't get along and have very different ideas, and then Hamilton supports Jefferson.
“The crowning irony of the stormy relations between Hamilton and Jefferson is that Hamilton helped install his longtime foe as President in 1801”. (Lines 176-
“ Hamilton -brilliant, brash and charming- had the self-reliant reflexes of someone who had always had to live by his wits” (lines 41-42)
“ His overwhelming intelligence petrified Jefferson and his followers” (lines 42-43)
“ As an orator, Hamilton could speak extemporaneously for hours on end” ( lines 43-44)
“As a writer, he could crank out 5,000- or 10,000- word memos overnight.” ( line 45)
“ He had a true zest for debate and never left anyone guessing where he stood.” (line 50)
7. One of the scandals were that Hamilton, even though he was married and had 4 children, had entered into a yearlong affair with a married woman, who was 23 years old when it began.
“ In 1797 a journalist named James T. Callender exposed that …show more content…
“ in a 95- page pamphlet, Hamilton confessed to the affair at what many regarded as inordinate length”. ( lines 158- 159)
And Jefferson never confirmed or denied the accusation.
“ Jefferson never confirmed or denied Callender’s story”. (Lines 171- 172)
I think their answers were consistent with what I know about them from this text because Hamilton always seemed to be a man who liked to talk and write as Chernow describes in lines 41 through 51, so he decided to just write a lot of pages to respond to the accusation.
While Jefferson didn't say anything, because as previously in the text, he just didn't care about a lot of things and he didn't like to talk or write as much as Hamilton.
8. The final paragraph is hard to believe, because Chernow made us see while we were reading the text that Hamilton and Jefferson didn't get along and have very different ideas, and then Hamilton supports Jefferson.
“The crowning irony of the stormy relations between Hamilton and Jefferson is that Hamilton helped install his longtime foe as President in 1801”. (Lines 176-