![]() ![]() Roosevelt made clear his opinion of the two founders by celebrating the Virginian-he put Jefferson’s face on the nickel and consecrated the Jefferson Memorial-and by consigning Hamilton, gently but firmly, to the infamous company of the robber barons and economic royalists. In that alleged synthesis, Hamilton was not so subtly demoted: in the famous formula of the political journalist Herbert Croly, Hamiltonian means were to be mustered for the sake of Jeffersonian ends.įranklin D. Though many Progressives liked Hamilton’s expansive view of federal power, his support for banks and bonds rankled them they felt it wiser to combine his principles with those of his bitter rival, Thomas Jefferson. His fame peaked early, spurred by Henry Cabot Lodge’s admiring biography (1882) and by Republican eulogists as diverse as Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge. ![]() ![]() The 20th century was not kind to Alexander Hamilton. ![]()
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