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Article: The Perils of Partisan History.(Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth by Stephen F. Knott)(Book Review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- January 1, 2003
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON AND THE PERSISTENCE OF MYTH. By Stephen F. Knott. University Press of Kansas. 336 pp. $34.95.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON and the Persistence of Myth is a book from which one can learn a great deal, but neither about Alexander Hamilton nor the persistence of myth. It is concerned with American history--more specifically, the history of the American Founding. It focuses on two representative symbols, Jefferson and Hamilton, and the persistent bifurcation in Americans' self-perception as a nation committed, on the one hand, to democracy, equality, localism, populism, strict constitutionalism, and agrarian economics--and, on the other, to limitations on ...