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Title: Hardly impartial...
Review: I'll admit I couldn't stomach finishing this book. I greatly admire Jefferson, and Wills' narrative gives such cursory treatment of Jefferson and Madison's motivations in the context of the events of the day, that it hardly comes across as impartial. Denouncing Jefferson and Madison's principled and active stand against the Alien and Sedition Act, and jumping to a 21st century perspective to offer a defense of the Act - really! And to say that Jefferson and Madison were obsessed with attacking Hamilton, while Hamilton was indifferent or friendly to them? Even a little reading of history would throw that claim into doubt.
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