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RACE: THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA IN AMERICA, by Thomas F. Gossett. The author contends that racism would not have endured so long without the wholehearted support of intellectuals and leaders from Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Roosevelt...
...University historian, that Hamilton was a "fabulous reactionary" with views alien to the U.S. environment. Indeed, his "works and words have been more consequential than those of any other American in shaping the Constitution under which we live." Every schoolboy knows that Hamilton was the archfoe of the democratic Jefferson and the archfriend of aristocracy. But few Americans today realize that it was Hamilton who first elaborated the doctrine of judicial review, pointing up the power of the courts to nullify all laws that, in his words, were "contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution...
...battles that the first Treasury Secretary fought with Jefferson and Madison, "Hamilton's enlarged views of the purposes of the Constitution prevailed." A major move was the establishment of the first Bank of the United States, which occasioned Hamilton's 15,000-word opinion on its constitutionality; in Rossiter's view, this was "perhaps the most brilliant and influential one-man effort in the long history of American constitutional law." The measure of Hamilton's victory is that the Jeffersonians who won the election of 1800, "like the Republicans who came after Franklin D. Roosevelt, might...
Pointing out that Jefferson kept slaves while writing the Bill of Rights, Kilson said the white man has always tried to "have his cake and eat it too." Liberals must be confronted with this deficiency, he said, before they can start helping the Negro to "get the monkey off his back...
...words might be those of a Bilbo, a Rankin or any number of rednecks. In fact, they are the considered opinion of the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, who thought that "all men are created equal," except for Negroes. In this painstaking book, Thomas Gossett, English professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, has traced racism to some surprising sources. Racism would not have endured so long, he suggests, if it had not had the wholehearted support of nearly all early American intellectuals. "The frontiersmen either looked forward with pleasure to the extinction of the Indians...