Fame and the Founding Fathers: Essays by Douglass Adair / Edition 1

by Douglass Adair, Trevor Colbourn

Overview

The fifteen articles, essays, notes, and documents gathered in this collection are a permanent contribution to study of the American founding. As teacher, critic, and editor of the William & Mary Quarterly, Adair demonstrated what Trevor Colbourn—one of his principal students—describes as an “extraordinary ability to enter empathetically into the experience and ideology of the Founding Fathers while at the same time writing about them critically and movingly.” The volume also includes an affectionate reminiscence of Adair by Caroline Robbins and a bibliographical essay by Robert E. Shalhope.

Douglass Adair (1912­–1968) was Professor of History and editor of the William & Mary Quarterly.

Trevor Colbourn is President Emeritus at the University of Central Florida.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780865971936
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/01/1998
Pages:	495
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction Trevor Colbourn xi
Douglass Adair: A Personal Memoir Caroline Robbins xix
Douglass Adair and the Historiography of Republicanism Robert E. Shalhope xxix I. ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
1. Fame and the Founding Fathers 3
2. The Authorship of the Disputed Federalist Papers 37
3. The Tenth Federalist Revisited 106
4. “That Politics May Be Reduced to a Science”: David Hume, James Madison, and the Tenth Federalist 132
5. “Experience Must Be Our Only Guide”: History, Democratic Theory, and the United States Constitution 152
6. James Madison 176
7. Was Alexander Hamilton a Christian Statesman? (With Marvin Harvey) 200
8. The Jefferson Scandals 227
9. Rumbold’s Dying Speech, 1685, and Jefferson's Last Words on Democracy, 1826 274
10. The Mystery of the Horn Papers (With Arthur Pierce Middleton) 289 II. REVIEW ESSAYS, NOTES, AND DOCUMENTS
11. The New Thomas Jefferson 335
12. The Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson 350
13. The Federalist Papers 357
14. Hamiltonian Sidelights 368 III. Hamilton on the Louisiana Purchase: A Newly Identified Editorial from the New-York Evening Post 369
III. A Note on Certain of Hamilton’s Pseudonyms 385
III. What was Hamilton’s “Favorite Song”? 405
15. Clio Bemused 419
15. Douglass Adair: A Select List of Writings 433 15. Index 437