From Boston Review, an article on Inventing Alexander Hamilton: The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance. A review of My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams. A review of A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson. The two Andrew Jacksons: Was Old Hickory a great president or an American Hitler? The Blue, the Gray, and the Bible: A review of The Civil War as a Theological Crisis by Mark A. Noll; and Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry S. Stout. From Humanities, an interview with Andrew Ferguson, author of Land of Lincoln; and an excerpt from The Making of John Ledyard: Empire and Ambition in the Life of an Early American Traveler by Edward Gray. More and more on American Transcendentalism by Philip F. Gura and The Tao of Emerson.
