1.05 – Take This Report and File It

Year(s) Discussed: 1790

Hamilton’s Report on the Public Credit is sent to Congress in January 1790 and immediately causes an uproar. As congressmen divide into pro and anti-administration factions on this issue, I take a closer look in this episode at the report and Hamilton’s proposals on how to deal with the public credit in order to ensure “the honor and prosperity of the United States” as well as what James Madison thought of Hamilton’s ideas.

Show Notes

Abernethy, Thomas P. The South in the New Nation 1789-1819. [Baton Rouge, LA]: Louisiana State University Press, 1961.
Bordewich, Fergus M. The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Hamilton, Alexander. “Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit, [9 January 1790],” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified December 28, 2016, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-06-02-0076-0002-0001. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 6, December 1789 – August 1790, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962, pp. 65–110.] [Last Accessed: 11 Feb 2017)
Historical Currency Converter (test version 1.0). http://www.historicalstatistics.org/Currencyconverter.html. [Last Accessed: 17 Feb 2017)
Kaplan, Lawrence S. Alexander Hamilton: Ambivalent Anglophile. Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2002.
Ketcham, Ralph. James Madison: A Biography. Charlottesville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 1994 [1971].
Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and the Rights of Man: Jefferson and His Time Volume Two. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co, 1951.
McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of George Washington. Lawrence, KS; Manhattan, KS; and Wichita, KS: The University Press of Kansas, 1974 [1974].
Nester, William. The Hamiltonian Vision, 1789-1800: The Art of American Power During the Early Republic. Washington, DC: Potomac Books,
Nettels, Curtis P. The Emergence of a National Economy: The Economic History of the United States, Volume II. White Plains, NY: M E Sharpe Inc, 1962.
US Debt Clock. http://www.usdebtclock.org/ [Last Accessed: 17 Feb 2017]

1.05 – Take This Report and File It

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