{"product_id":"letters-to-alexander-hamilton-king-of-the-feds","title":"Letters to Alexander Hamilton, King of the Feds.","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCALLENDER, Tom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLetters to Alexander Hamilton, King of the Feds. Ci-Devant Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America, Inspector-General of the Standing Armies Thereof, Counsellor at Law. \u0026amp;c. \u0026amp;c. \u0026amp;c. Being Intended as a Reply to a Scandalous Pamphlet Lately Published under the Sanction, as It Is Presumed, of Mr. Hamilton, and Signed with the Signature of Junius Philaenus.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNew York: Printed by Richard Reynolds, 1802 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTall 8vo., prettily rebound in quarter green morocco over marbled boards; spine lettered directly in gilt; pp. [iii], 4-64, the pamphlet itself bound between 10 blank leaves and brown endpapers; outer edges of pamphlet untrimmed; the binding essentially fine; the pamphlet spotted; the last few pages stained to the gutter at head, with a couple of pencil notes to the first and last page; very good. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA rambling attack on both Alexander Hamilton and John Adams, accusing the former of corruption and hypocrisy and the latter as having no right to promote Hamilton as Major General of the United States Army. “I shall never allow any man in my presence to say that you are dishonest”, Callender writes, “but surely you have exposed yourself, as being the monument that enclosed a living spirit of destruction to the wealth and prosperity of all America”. “I am obliged to view you in the light of a very desperate and dangerous enemy to society”, he continues. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJames Thomson Callender (1758 - 1803) was a Scottish pamphleteer and journalist who began his career with a series of satirical pamphlets criticising the writer Samuel Johnson. In 1792 he published a highly controversial critique of war, imperialism, and corruption in Britain, and subsequently fled to the United States to avoid prosecution. Arriving in Philadelphia, he became a radical Republican journalist and began to attack the Federalist position. Soon, his writings on George Washington, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton began to gain both fame and notoriety. In 1797, it was he who exposed Hamilton’s affair with Maria Reynolds, as well as his alleged financial corruption. Later, Hamilton published \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Reynolds Pamphlet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in which he confessed to the adultery. Though printed ‘by Tom Callender, Esq., Citizen of the World’, some scholars have claimed that the attribution here is a pseudonym, as the real Tom Callender had by 1802 joined with the federalists. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fold the Corner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56692814479684,"sku":null,"price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/8711\/0212\/files\/69902472.jpg?v=1777235466","url":"https:\/\/foldthecornerbooks.co.uk\/products\/letters-to-alexander-hamilton-king-of-the-feds","provider":"Fold the Corner Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}