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The conflict that took place in the 1790's between two impacting founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton shaped the nation we know today. Noble E. Cunningham's Jeffersonvs. Hamilton: Confrontations that shaped a Nation.
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Background The conflict that took place in the 1790's between two impacting founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton shaped the nation we know today. Noble E. Cunningham's Jefferson vs. Hamilton: Confrontations that shaped a Nation, is an excellent study of the conflicts between these two great men. You are able to see how fundamental differences played themselves out in their formal and informal interactions. They served together in Washington's cabinet; Hamilton serving as Secretary of Treasury and Jefferson as Secretary of State, but that seemed their only similarity. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were not merely on different issues that shaped the nation, but they were at the head of those differences. Jefferson distrusted the federal government, which he saw invading individual liberty, while Hamilton distrusted the people; Jefferson saw American as agrarian, while Hamilton saw it as industrious, and while Jefferson fought for strict interpretation of the...
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