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... HAMILTON By Henry Ford Jones ROBERT E. LEE By Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman Further volumes will follow at short intervals , the list including WASHINGTON , LINCOLN , WEBSTER , GRANT , CLEVELAND , and others . CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS ...
... HAMILTON By Henry Ford Jones ROBERT E. LEE By Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman Further volumes will follow at short intervals , the list including WASHINGTON , LINCOLN , WEBSTER , GRANT , CLEVELAND , and others . CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS ...
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... Hamilton , Webster , and Lincoln , Jefferson seems far less willing than any of his illustrious compeers to fall into his defini- tive place of honor . Washington and Lincoln were maligned in life as no other Americans have been ; V ...
... Hamilton , Webster , and Lincoln , Jefferson seems far less willing than any of his illustrious compeers to fall into his defini- tive place of honor . Washington and Lincoln were maligned in life as no other Americans have been ; V ...
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... Hamilton the title of the master genius of American finance or refuse to acknowledge the unique contribution of the Federalist to political theory . But Thomas Jefferson is still a subject for acrimonious criticism and chivalrous ...
... Hamilton the title of the master genius of American finance or refuse to acknowledge the unique contribution of the Federalist to political theory . But Thomas Jefferson is still a subject for acrimonious criticism and chivalrous ...
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... Hamilton . Indeed , no more astonishingly persistent prejudice can be found in our American historiog- raphy than the treatment of these two great men like twin buckets in a well , alternately elevated or de- pressed according as an ...
... Hamilton . Indeed , no more astonishingly persistent prejudice can be found in our American historiog- raphy than the treatment of these two great men like twin buckets in a well , alternately elevated or de- pressed according as an ...
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... Hamilton than as the colleague of Wythe and Pendleton . And yet , while we may not allow a man to be the final judge of his own charac- ter , it is only fair to respect his estimate of his own accomplishments , especially when he makes ...
... Hamilton than as the colleague of Wythe and Pendleton . And yet , while we may not allow a man to be the final judge of his own charac- ter , it is only fair to respect his estimate of his own accomplishments , especially when he makes ...
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