republicanism

Draws from the papers of Alexander Hamilton, the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, to provide an account of his thought on the principles of politics.

"Where students of the American founding are inclined to dispute whether the Revolution was liberal, republican, or merely confused, [the author] demonstrates that the American regime embodies an uneasy, fragile, and carefully worked-out compromise between the enlightened despotism espoused by Thomas Hobbes and the classical republicanism defended by Pericles and Demosthenes"--Back cover.

Examines seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France.

A biography of fifteenth-century Italian political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, examining his life and thought against the background of Renaissance Florence.