he had a good sense he would across the river and that would finish ehrenberg. hamilton was going to throw away his shot, this would be burr's last shot. it did finish him politically. forcehamilton as a spent by 1804. that's about as far as i can take it. have hamilton witnessed the war of 1812, he would have told them i told you so. you have to make strong military and a national bank to fund a war. you can't just talk about war and declare war and not be prepared for it. that is committing national suicide. i think he would have felt very vindicated by the events related to the tragic mismanagement of the war of 1812 under madison. >> thank you and we have our last question back here. future ofyou see the alexander hamilton's legacy in of all these legacy appreciation that is been going on in the last few years? >> i think hamilton's legacy is in good shape not just because of the great work of the alexander hamilton awareness society but we live in a very diverse country. there is a great appreciation for issues related to immigration. i would think and i ha

and that that would finish ehrenberg -- aaron burr. hamilton was going to throw away his shot, this would be burr's last shot. it did finish him politically. so i just see hamilton as a spent force by 1804. without reading the entire piece or speaking with joanne freeman, that is as far as i can take it. lived andhamilton witnessed the war of he would 1812, have told them i told you so. you have to make strong military and a national bank to fund a war. you can't just talk about war and declare war and not be prepared for it. that is committing national suicide. i think he would have felt very vindicated by the events related to the tragic mismanagement of the war of 1812 under madison. >> thank you and we have our last question back here. dr. knott: sure. >> thank you for that talk. dr. knott: thank you. >> how do you see the future of alexander hamilton's legacy in the sense that the shape of all appreciation and renaissance going on in the last few years? dr. knott: i think hamilton's legacy is in good shape not just because of the

[laughter] could he possibly have against ehrenberg? eaaron burr. prof. ferling: thank you for your remarks. i enjoyed them very much. jezebel as you know presents jefferson as a very rigid and even pretty self-righteous partisan. that seems to contrast so much for jefferson enlightenment anchor in the revolutionary and the great mind of such cosmopolitan thoughts. i'm curious whether you see that contrast in jefferson and what >> i agree very much with it that per trail. -- portrayal. certainly, jefferson's views form in the 1760's i think. and he expands those views, but he never really expands those of use, he remains an adherent of the views he came to at that point. but i think that was true of most of the people, probably true of most people at most times, in fact. >> thank you kindly for your presentation. writing theadison constitution and being almost a neighbor right up the road from montpelier, could you feel have the greater input into madison in that production of the constitution? be it jefferson or him? neighborprof. ferling: i am note eith

one, perhaps to his later chagrin, was named ehrenberg. r. aaron bur there is the other side to thomas jefferson. there are the detractors. there are the people who for various reasons saw thomas jefferson as someone who not only was not a good american but someone who was in their eyes fundamentally un-american. they saw him wes as a chief actor in the american revolution. he cut he spent time as our ambassador to france in the opening days of the french revolution, they saw him as a french revolutionary. they saw him as an individual who ascribed to all the excesses of the french revolution. to his credit, we have to say that jefferson was there as people were coming up with slogans like liberty, fraternity, and equality. it was only after he left that people came up with slogans like chop off their heads. but the radicalism of the french revolution is something that very much struck fear into the hearts of many of jefferson's opponents. in the 1790's, for example, the political discord within the united states reached a fever pitch. the pr