The Federalist Papers
$38.89
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
8 October 2008
Summary
‘A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.’
In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York press; the purpose of the essays was to persuade the citizens of New York State to ratify the Constitution of the United States. The three authors - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay - were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American history.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192805928 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192805924 |
| Author: | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Lawrence Goldman |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 8 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 129mm x 195mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Critics Review
Admirable introduction…Oxford University Press is to be congratulated on adding it to its collection of World’s Classics.
Admirable introduction…Oxford University Press is to be congratulated on adding it to its collection of World’s Classics. * Howard Temperley, TLS *
Alexander Hamilton
Lawrence Goldman is editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and he has published widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British History, including Britain’s social and political relations with the United States.
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