Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding

An intellectual history of three Founding Fathers whose unique approaches to the Enlightenment helped shape America.

American historian Darren Staloff delves into the political and intellectual lives of Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson to reveal how they embodied the collision of Europe's grand Enlightenment project with the birth of a young nation. These three very different men each governed their public lives by Enlightenment principles. And the struggle for American ...