John Lamberton Harper is Professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of America and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945-1948, winner of the 1987 Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, and American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson, winner of the 1995 Robert Ferrell Prize from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations. His articles and reviews have appeared in The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, The Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Survival, World Policy Journal, SAIS Review, and other publications.
Part I. The Coming of Necessity: 1. From providence to fortune, 1757(?)-1781
2. Prepared to be not good, 1781-1788
Part II. Battle Lines are Drawn: 3. At Washington's side again, 1789
4. Hamilton versus the Virginians, 1789-1791
5. The Nootka Sound Crisis, part one: the Morris mission
6. The Nootka Sound Crisis, part two: Hamilton and Jefferson
7. Liaisons Dangereuses, 1791-1792
Part III. Seizing the Helm: 8. The birth of American neutrality, February-May, 1793
9. 'A most distressing dilemma', May-December, 1793
10. Hamilton and the war crisis of 1794
11. The Jay treaty
Part IV. Informal Adviser to the Prince: 12. Return to not-so-private life, 1794-1795
13. 'Camillus' into the breach, 1795
14. A high-stakes game: Washington's farewell address, 1796
15. Transition to the new regime, 1796-97
Part V. A Prince in His Own Right?: 16. Hamilton and Adams: the background
17. Hamilton's 'Grand Plan'
18. Hamilton's army, part one, 1797-1798
19. Hamilton's army, part two, 1798-1799
20. Killing two birds with one stone, 1799
Part VI. The Lesser of Evils: 21. 1800 and after
22. From fortune into providence.
