Alexander Hamilton “Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought” (Hamilton). This quote shows Alexander Hamilton's task commitment and how he was devoted to everything he did. He had made and overcame many mistakes during his
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people, who were extremely intelligent but were also flawed. Franklin, for example, spent a good deal of his time in Paris flirting with younger women. Even Washington was actually poorly read. As Adams realized, “…all the heroic portraits of the great men were romanticized distortions” (Ellis, 2000, p.217).Although the amount of characterization provided for all the characters in Founding Brothers can become overwhelming, it really does give the reader a better understanding of the characters, as
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Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were two totally different individuals, which was why they both were chosen as leaders of the New Government created by Washington. Hamilton was the Secretary of Treasury, and Jefferson was Secretary of State. Both men agreed with the idea of the Constitution, but that was about it. Hamilton did not like your average person. He thought average citizens were ignorant, selfish, and untrustworthy. Jefferson was the complete opposite. He believed in the common
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Honest Abe and Backwoods Boy Did you know that our 16th president Abraham Lincoln grew up with a ax. "Honest Abe" and "Backwoods boy" make different points about Abraham Lincoln's childhood: "Honest Abe" shows that Abraham Lincoln was a kind and honest person, but "Backwoods Boy" shows how tough his childhood was.For paragraph 1 I will be explaining how there different,2nd paragraph will be how they are similar, and the final 3 paragraph will be how different they are.
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Joseph J. Ellis, the author of the historical novel “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation”, is an American historian, novelist, and professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Ellis was born on July 18, 1943 in Washington, D.C. and is still alive today, living with his wife in Amherst, Massachusetts and is the father of three adult sons. As for his career, he has had some impressive accomplishments in his lifetime and some not so pleasant scandals. Ellis earned his Bachelor’s
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The retired history professor from The University of West Georgia has gone through extensive research, proven by 50-pages of endnotes documented at the end of the book, to compose an easy-to-read non-fiction about the impact Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton during the early days of our country. Ferling has organized his book to take the reader through the lives of these two powerhouses from early childhood to death. Beginning with a 3-page chronology, he gives a timeline the reader can refer
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. by Joseph J. Ellis. In Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis, the “Brothers” in the titles are Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. Although there are controversies about Joseph Ellis leaving out the “sister” that also has an important role in the revolutionary, Abigail Adams. Reading this book, I learned a lot about America’s founding
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Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America, by Thomas Fleming, takes us back in time to a period in post-revolutionary America. The two-party system was in full swing it was the Federalists versus the Democratic-Republicans. Starting out in 1804, when the United States was wild and chaotic time when it came to politics. Fleming goes above and beyond in this book talking not only about the duel but what lead up to it and the events that followed after it along with their impact
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Part A: Highlight two options that best describe the central ideas of the text. A. History is not made up of just a few heroes and villains. B. Mexicans did not participate in westward expansion. C. Average citizens were responsible for westward expansion. D. Thomas Jefferson was responsible for westward expansion. Part B: Select two quotations from the text --one for each answer-- to support the answers to Part A. “It is natural and perhaps necessary for historians and story-tellers
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Brothers to each other and Fathers to the nation, James Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison led the United States to independence over a series of revolutionary events. Joseph Ellis’s Founding Brothers successfully brings to life the issues and personalities of this period in time and is able to characterize these figures beyond their distinguished names, but as characters in a dramatic and remarkable history. Ellis succinctly
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