Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution–and What It Means for Americans Today-Fast Shipping

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Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton–two of the most influential Founding Fathers–were also fierce rivals with two opposing political philosophies and two radically different visions for America.

While Jefferson is betterremembered today, it is actually Hamilton’s political legacy that has triumphed–a legacy that has subverted the Constitution and transformed the federal governmentinto the very leviathan state that our forefathers fought against in the AmericanRevolution. How did we go from the Jeffersonian ideal of limited government to thebloated imperialist system of Hamilton’s design? Acclaimed economic historian, ThomasJ. DiLorenzo revealshow Hamilton, first as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and later as thenation’s first and most influential treasury secretary, masterfully promoted an agendaof nationalist glory and interventionist economics. These core beliefs did not diewith Hamilton in his fatal duel with Aaron Burr, but were carried on through his politicalheirs.

The Hamiltonian legacy wrested control into the hands of the federal governmentby inventing the myth of the Constitution’s “implied powers, transforming state governments from Jeffersonian bulwarks of liberty to beggars for federal crumbs. It also devised a national banking system that imposes boom-and-bust cycles on the Americaneconomy; saddled Americans with a massive national debt and oppressive taxation, and pushed economic policies that lined the pockets of the wealthy and created a government system built on graft, spoils, and patronage.

Bydebunking the Hamiltonian myths, DiLorenzoexposes an uncomfortable truth: the American people are no longer the masters oftheir government but its servants. Only by restoring a system based on Jeffersonianideals can Hamilton’s curse be lifted, at last.