I´d like to read a book about the founding fathers, especially Jefferson and Hamilton, any suggestions?

Question

I am interested in constitutional issues and I like very much to read about the American Constitutional History.

Also, I would like to understand the views of this important figures...

thanks for your suggestions!

Answer 1

Read "Founding Brothers" By Joseph Ellis.

It's amazing, it makes them seem as people and not demi-gods

It is verbose at points, but it is a REAL good piece of literature

Answer 2

Mark Summers' Listmania on Amazon.com (see the link below) has a good list that includes titles on both Jefferson and Hamilton.  I've read 3 on the list and found all of them interesting.

Answer 3

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton were the ones who wrote the agenda for the Constitution .   Jefferson was not there;  he was in France as an ambassador and had very little to do with the Constitution.

Later, Jefferson and Hamilton became bitter enemies.  J was a republican and H was an ardent Federalist.

The best information I have gathered is from the book  "John Adams" by  David McCullough which has all the history of the the first Presidents.  and the writing of the Constitution including Jefferson's interactions with John Adams, and later his interactions with Alexander.  The book gives you a whole view of the period which I think you will find more interesting than individual studies.

I too am reading about about the early American history and Am fascinated  by it---I am 65 by the way---and just beginning to really enjoy history.  I can't read enough.

Enjoy you studies.!

Answer 4

The Federalist Papers .

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Answer 5

Jefferson and Hamilton:

Ron Chernow--Alexander Hamilton

Merrill Peterson--Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation

Dumas Malone--Jefferson and His TIme, 6 vols.

Roger Kennedy--Burr, Hamilton, Jefferson

Noble Cunningham--Jefferson vs. Hamilton

Constitutional history:

David Stewart--The Summer of 1787

Clinton Rossiter--1787: The Grand Convention

Ralph Ketchum--James Madison

Max Farrand--Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 4 vols.

Michael Kammen--a Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture

Forrest McDonald--We the People; E Pluribus Unum; Novus Ordo Seclorum

Leonard Levy--Constitutional Opinions: Aspects of the Bill of Rights

---Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution

J.E. Cooke, ed. --The Federalist

Jackson Turner Main--The Anti-Federalists

Answer 6

the American Sphinx is all about Thomas Jefferson