Book III: Part I
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Parrington, Vernon Louis
I. Agrarianism and Capitalism: A vivid account of the party struggles of the time is given in Claude G. Bowers, Jefferson and Hamilton (Boston, 1925), with full bibliography. For political theory, see Harold J. Laski, Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham (New York, 1920). Charles E. Merriam, A History of American Political Theories (New York, 1903). A dramatic account of Shays’s Rebellion is given in Edward Bellamy, The Duke of Stockbridge (New York, 1901).
II. The Great Debate: The bibliography is extensive. See J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution ... (4 vols., Washington, 1827, 1836; 5 vols., Philadelphia, 1906). Max Farrand, Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (3 vols., New Haven, 1911). S. B. Harding, The Contest over the Ratification of the Federal Constitution in the State of Massachusetts (New York, 1896). Charles A. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York, 1913). The Federalist, numerous editions; the best are those edited by H. C. Lodge (New York, 1886) and by P. L. Ford (New York, 1898). Richard Henry Lee, Observations leading to a fair examination of the system of government ... In a number of Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican (reprinted in Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States, 1787–1788, edited by P. L. Ford, Brooklyn, 1888).
III. Alexander Hamilton: Works, Comprising his Correspondence, edited by J. C. Hamilton (7 vols., New York, 1850–51). Works, edited by H. C. Lodge (10 vols., New York, 1885).
There are numerous lives. See J. C. Hamilton, The Life of Alexander Hamilton (2 vols., New York, 1834). H. C. Lodge, Alexander Hamilton (Boston, 1882, 1898). J. T. Morse, The Life of Alexander Hamilton (2 vols., Boston, 1876). See also Gertrude Atherton, The Conqueror (New York and London, 1902). A. H. Vanderberg, The Greatest American, Alexander Hamilton ... with a Symposium of Opinions by Distinguished Americans (New York and London, 1922). F. S. Oliver, Alexander Hamilton: An Essay on the American Union (New York, 1907)—an English view.
John Adams: Works ... with a Life of the Author, edited by C. F. Adams (10 vols., Boston, 1850–56).
See J. Q. Adams and C. F. Adams, The Life of John Adams (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1871). J. T. Morse, Jr., John Adams (Boston, 1884, 1898). Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, edited by C. F. Adams (2 vols., Boston, 1840). C. M. Walsh, The Political Science of John Adams (New York, 1915).