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Our guest now is Jeffrey Rosen, the book which just came out about a week or so ago,

The Pursuit of Liberty, How Hamilton v. Jefferson Ignited the lasting battle over power in America.

And in his book, he traces this over different time periods, a couple of decades, each of these things, and how people's viewpoint and our viewpoint of government has shifted between these two polls, I guess, in terms of looking at how power should be structured here in the United States between Hamilton and Jefferson.

But you have an interesting anecdote about Hamilton and Jefferson and what happened, what Jefferson did after Hamilton died. Tell us a little bit about that.

It's so moving that Hamilton and Jefferson's battles define our early debates, and in fact all debates ever since,

about national power versus states' rights, or a strong executive versus a strong judiciary,

or liberal versus strict construction of the Constitution.

And their battles over the Bank of the United States and the Alien and Sedition Acts

lead to the formation of America's first political parties.

But despite all of those clashes, at the end of his life, after Hamilton dies in the duel,

because they're both united in believing that Aaron Burr is a traitor who's trying to raise an insurrection in Spanish Louisiana and sent himself up as a

dictator. After they both united against Burr, Jefferson places a bust of Hamilton across from his

own in the central entrance hall of Monticello. You can see it there today if you go there. And before he

passed it, Jefferson would say, opposed in life as in death. And he viewed Hamilton not as a

hated enemy to be destroyed, but a respected adversary to be engaged with. And that spirit of

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