Why read Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson?

Book cover of Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding

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Where The Ideas for which We Stand came from.

In this incisively drawn book, Darren Staloff forcefully reminds us that America owes its guiding political traditions to three Founding Fathers whose lives embodied the collision of Europe's grand Enlightenment project with the birth of the nation.

Alexander Hamilton, the worldly…

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1 author picked Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Dennis C. Rasmussen

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This book is not as acclaimed as the others on this list, but it is a hidden gem. Staloff deftly weaves together the lives and ideas of three of the most notable founders, and the ways in which they were influenced by their Enlightenment forebears. Precisely because the book is relatively little-known, I recommend it all the time to colleagues and students.

From Dennis' list on The best books on the American founders from a political theorist.