A review by adkwriter15
The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy by Jay Cost

2.0

I could just never get into this one. For such a short history book, there was too much repetition of information. I got frustrated that I wasn't being trusted to remember those details. I was really interested in this topic, but it never reached out and grabbed me. The epilogue really struck out some interesting ideas and reasons for this argument to be relevant today, but I didn't get any sense of that larger meaning as I was reading. If you are curious about this argument on a theoretical level, this might be for you. Otherwise, however, I got more from reading individual biographies on these two than this book.