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Bill looking forward to your new book - and, while Hamilton’s Manufactures may be most famous now among certain writers , I think that attention is misplaced. Putting square pegs into round holes never works out well, and imagining Hamilton, dealing with the needs of a low income/wealth developing nation of the 18th C as an architect of industrial policy for a 21sf C superpower is silly if not ridiculous. Much better to focus on his writings and policy around the public debt and credit which much more than his experiments in Paterson NJ , were the building blocks of what turned into the American financial and industrial juggernaut of the late 19th C - talk soon after your books arrival -

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I know he has gotten in trouble in the past for being to affectionate with women. Clearly it is not women alone. Holy cow is that so much in your face closeness. I don't care what sex you are. All I can feel is how tiny Miranda is making himself.

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