Hamilton Book Reviews Samples For Students

The main difference between the Virginia and New Jersey constitutional convention was on the powers of the federal government. Even though the different states were independent with their set of rules, they could not amend or rectify their constitution without the consent of the federal government.
Alexander and Hamilton played a major role in defining the US constitution. They however had different approaches on how the constitution would work best for the country. It was rather obvious that their views were aimed at improving and growing the economy of the country. The question was however on whether to utilize ...

The novel "Guilty Pleasures" by Laurell K. Hamilton, is the first book in a series about a female vampire hunter named Anita Blake. Anita is an animator, a term used to refer to someone with the powers of necromancy, or the ability to bring the dead back to life. She raises the dead as a profession and is usually paid by a family who want to gain closure with dead relatives, although Anita is sometimes also hired by the police and government agencies to raise the dead in order to solve crimes or handle sticky legal issues. Through her job as an animator she ...

Joseph J. Ellis Day and Time

The main idea of the book is that the early history of the new republic of the United States was not as trouble-free as we are sometimes led to believe. Ellis argues that in the popular imagination, the break from the British and the ideals of the American Revolution are seen as inevitable – almost part of what we might call America’s manifest destiny. However, he reveals that the unity of the early republic was a very fragile thing and that it almost broke up because of disagreements between the different states. Ellis further argues that the Union of the ...

The book, "Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different" of 2006, is an essay collection, authored by the award-winning Gordon Wood from Brown University. He gives thoughtful discussions about the Founders and talks about their backgrounds, achievements, and even thoughts. Wood succeeds in supporting his argument that the Founders used their good characters in leadership and tells us why it has been hard for subsequent leaders to imitate which is “the growth of egalitarian democracy” (Wood, 29). “Why don’t we have such leaders today?” he asks (Wood, 4). Wood is bewildered by the fact that an equal society ...

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The book George Washington in the American Revolution by James Thomas Flexner is a book that covers the period of the revolutionary war in the United States of America. The book captures the key moments of George Washington; from the time of his selection as the commander of Continental Army to the moment he resigned and handed over his sword to the American Congress in the year 1783. The author covers that period and places much focus on the personal experience of George Washington in the army, while at the same time dwelling a little on the revolution in other colonies.
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Book Review: Shay's Rebellion by Leonard Richards

It is evident that many experts have been insisting that most of the history books have long maintained that Shay's Rebellion (1786-1787) the Massachusetts insurgence that caused George Washington to come out of retirement and eventually sped the ratification and the revision of the U.S Constitution was a revolt of poor, obligated farmers. However, University of Massachusetts Amherst history lecturer Leonard L. Richards has a different take on it. In his Shay's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle, Richards examines the individualities of the rebels and contends that they were normally not underprivileged by the least, and that scholars have misinterpreted ...

Margaret Mitchell’s sweeping epic about the Civil War has been called many things since its publication. Admirers have classified Gone With the Wind as an elegy for a lost and noble civilization, others as nothing more than cheap melodrama. Ultimately, it stands as a remarkable literary achievement in American myth-making, an idealized saga about a way of life that relied on the enslavement and exploitation of human beings. As a Southern writer, Mitchell can hardly be classified among the likes of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. Rather, Gone With the Wind exists in its own territory, partly by virtue of its ...

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The devil in the white city is one of the literatures by Erik Larson, which highlights some developments in the eighteenth century. This was a defining moment in United States where various architectural designs wee being adopted. Technical education had just hit its peak as many more people acquired skills. With the knowledge, they looked for creative ways of beautifying the city (Johnson, 73). They realized the need of planning everything and ensuring that both buildings, roads, rails and parks were placed at their right positions. One of the weaknesses that such architectural designs and designers had was the fact ...

Many of us puts a different meaning in the concept of democracy. For some, it is a set of political institutions, for others it means a particular political regime. In fact, the nature of society, which claims to be democratic, is determined by how clear the idea of ​​democracy is and the nature of institutions that are designed to ensure the implementation of this idea to life. The very essence of democratic government is the absolute will of the majority – in such a way it was defined in 19th century by Alexis de Tocqueville. However, according to one of the founders of the ...