Alexander Hamilton / Ron Chernow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chernow, Ron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804.

Hamilton, Alexander.

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.

United States.

Government.

Politics and government.

Medical Subjects:

Government.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biographie.

Physical Description:

xi, 818 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Press, 2004.

Summary:

Ron Chernow tells the story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography argues that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. Chernow here recounts Hamilton's turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington's aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Historians have long told the story of America's birth as the triumph of Jefferson's democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we've encountered before -- from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton's famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.

Contents:

Prologue: the oldest Revolutionary War widow

The castaways

Hurricane

The collegian

The pen and the sword

The little lion

A frenzy of valor

The lovesick colonel

Glory

Raging billows

A grave, silent, strange sort of animal

Ghosts

August and respectable assembly

Publius

Putting the machine in motion

Villainous business

Dr. Pangloss

The first town in America

Of avarice and enterprise

City of the future

Corrupt squadrons

Exposure

Stabbed in the dark

Citizen Genet

A disagreeable trade

Seas of blood

The wicked insurgents of the West

Sugar plums and toys

Spare Cassius

The man in the glass bubble

Flying too near the sun

An instrument of hell

Reign of witches

Works godly and ungodly

In an evil hour

Gusts of passion

In a very belligerent humor

Deadlock

A world full of folly

Pamphlet wars

The price of truth

A despicable opinion

Fatal errand

The melting scene

Epilogue: Eliza.

Participant:

Read by Grover Gardner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 739-788) and index.

ISBN:

1594200092

9781594200090

0143034758

9780143034759

OCLC:

53083988

Publisher Number:

9780143034759

9781594200090

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