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Ames's fear of Napoleon was wrong, said Mr. Hoover last week, and so were modern interventionists. Hitler will be defeated, as was Napoleon, not by the Russian winter but by the hate he has kindled: "The hate of Hitler will be more terrible than the blizzard was to...
With his habitual air of grumpy wisdom, Herbert Hoover last week summoned up a ghost: the ghost of Fisher Ames (1758-1808). The only living ex-President was making a speech to warn the U.S. against entry into the war. To show how wrought-up earlier interventionists had been, he...
Fisher Ames was the Herbert Hoover of his day-except in foreign policy. A great New England Federalist, in a time when the Federalists were down & out, "a man of singularly pure and unselfish character," Fisher Ames was one of those stiff U.S. statesmen, like Hoover, who are respected without...
An infant prodigy (Latin at six, Harvard at twelve), the greatest orator between Patrick Henry and Henry Clay (Congress adjourned after one of his speeches, to let the spell of his eloquence expire), Fisher Ames looked like one of the most promising statesmen in U.S. history. But when Jefferson became...
He thought Jefferson was leading the U.S. down the path to anarchy and despotism followed by the French Revolution. Just as Herbert Hoover fears the influence of collectivist ideas in the New Deal, so did Fisher Ames fear the influence of French revolutionary thinkers in the men around Jefferson. He...