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...PAPERS OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON, VOLUMES I & II (1,337 pp.)-Edifed by Harold C. Syreff and Jacob E. Cooke-Columbia Universify...
...noble-so noble, in fact, that he did not look at all self-conscious when they carved his head on a mountainside. Franklin was a cross between Will Rogers and Santa Claus. Jefferson was the great champion of all that was good-democracy, social justice, and the common man. Hamilton was Jefferson's bitter antagonist. He distrusted democracy, had no time for social justice, and thought the common man to be too common to bother much about. In the great pageant surrounding the birth of the nation, Hamilton clearly played the heavy...
These convenient caricatures have been sharply revised during recent years by the surge of scholarly interest in the Revolutionary period, and no image has been more greatly altered than that of Alexander Hamilton. In these first two volumes of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, which trace him to the age of 27, Hamilton emerges as a dazzlingly brilliant young man, autocratic certainly, but far from austere, a proud and self-confident pragmatist, a deft writer with an equal flair for savage public sarcasm and impassioned private love letters, and a leader who suffered fools...
Part of the recent widespread effort of historians to compile source material on the great 18th century Americans,* the two Hamilton volumes are primarily intended for the use of other historians, and like other such collections are choked with trivia. But Hamilton's pen is so sharp and blunt by turn that the letters, notes and official papers, assembled by Editors Syrett and Cooke, contain surprisingly lively material for the nonhistorian, and certain sections read like an epistolary novel...
...Sarnoff-got his University of Minnesota degree (class of '23) in electrical engineering, has long been associated with developing RCA's color television, a pet Sarnoff project. A top contender for the presidency back in 1957 when Burns was brought in from Booz, Allen & Hamilton, Engstrom is a skilled corporate strategist, had already been given all of Burns's responsibilities except supervision of the National Broadcasting Co. weeks before the formal changeover was announced...