The republics of Greece and Rome proved incapable of waging war
effectively and remaining free at the same time. The record of
modern republics is not much more encouraging. How, then, did the
United States manage to emerge victorious from the world wars of
this century, including the Cold War, and still retain its
fundamental liberties?
For Karl-Friedrich Walling, this unprecedented accomplishment
was the work of many hands and many generations, but of Alexander
Hamilton especially. No Founder thought more about the theory and
practice of modern war and free government. None supplied advice of
more enduring relevance to statesmen faced with the responsibility
of providing for the common defense while securing the blessings of
liberty to their posterity.
Hamilton's strategic sobriety led many of his contemporaries to
view him as an American Caesar, but this revisionist account calls
the conventional "militarist" interpretation of Hamilton into
question. Hamilton sought to unite the strength necessary for war
with the restraint required by the rule of law, popular consent,
and individual rights. In the process, he helped found something
new, the world's most durable republican empire.
Walling constructs a conversation about war and freedom between
Hamilton and the Loyalists, the Anti-Federalists, the
Jeffersonians, and other Federalists. Instead of pitting Hamilton's
virtues against his opponents' vices (or vice versa), Walling pits
Hamilton's virtue of responsibility against the revolutionary
virtue of vigilance, a quarrel he believes is inherent to American
party government. By reexamining that quarrel in light of the
necessities of war and the requirements of liberty, Walling has
written the most balanced and moving account of Hamilton so
far.
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