"Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign Policy" by John Lamberton Harper

Harper provides an original and highly readable account of Hamiltonas famous clashes with Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, and his key role in defining the U.S. national security strategy.

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) was an illegitimate West Indian emigrant who became the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
American Machiavelli focuses on Hamilton's controversial activities as foreign policy adviser and aspiring military leader. In the first major study of his foreign policy role in 30 years, John Lamberton Harper describes a decade of bitter division over the role of the Federal government in the economy during the 1790s and draws parallels between Hamilton and the sixteenth century Italian political adviser, Niccolò Machiavelli.

Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: THE COMING OF NECESSITY
1 From Providence into Fortune, 1757 (?)—1781
2 Prepared To Be Not Good, 1781-1788
PART II: BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN
3 At Washington's Side Again, 1789
4 Hamilton versus the Virginians, 1789-1791
5 The Nootka Sound Crisis. Part One: The Morris Mission
6 Nootka Sound, Part Two: The View from New York
7 Liaisons Dangereuses, 1791-1792
PART III: SEIZING THE HELM
8 The Birth of American Neutrality, February-May 1793
9 "A Most Distressing Dilemma,' May-December 1793
10 Hamilton and the Crisis of 1794
11 The Jay Treaty
PART IV: INFORMAL ADVISER TO THE PRINCE
12 Return to Not-So-Private Life, 1794-1795
13 iCamillus* into the Breach
14 AHigh-Stakes Game: Washington's Farewell Address, 1796
15 Transition to the New Regime, 1796-1797
PART V: A PRINCE IN HIS OWN RIGHT?
16 Hamilton and Adams: The Background
17 Hamilton's "Grand Plan”
18 Hamilton and His Army, Part One, 1797-1798
19 Hamilton and His Army, Part Two, 1798-1799
20 Killing Two Birds with One Stone, 1799
PART VI: THE LESSER OF EVILS
21 1800 and After
22 From Fortune into Providence
Conclusion: Hamilton Then and Now
Notes
Bibliography
Index