Alexander Hamilton and the growth of the new nation / John C. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, J. C. (John C.), 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (679 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2017]

Summary:

Probably no American statesman displayed more constructive imagination than did Alexander Hamilton. Prodigal of ideas, bursting with plans for diversifying the economy, and obsessed by a determination to make the United States a powerful nation under a centralized government, he left an imprint upon this country that time has not effaced. Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation is the premier biography of Alexander Hamilton written by one of the foremost scholars of early American history. Hamilton's career was at times contradictory: born, in John Adams's words, the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler," he rose to high social, political, and military position in the newly born country. He dreaded divisiveness, yet his strategies and actions aggravated political sectionalism. Miller weaves together the complex facets of Hamilton's life to make a vivid, absorbing biography.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Transaction Introduction

Introduction

Part I: The Union Against Great Britain

1. The Making of a Revolutionary

2. Aide-de-Camp to Washington

3. The Struggle Against Inflation

4. The Quarrel with Washington

Part II: The Union Against Chaos

5. Congress and the Army

6. Law and the Loyalists

7. "A Rage for Liberty

8. Democracy and Banking

9. "More Power to Congress

10. The Constitutional Convention (1)

11. The Constitutional Convention (2)

12. The Federalist

13. The Rule of Law

14. A More Perfect Union

Part III: The Union Consummated

15. The First Secretary of the Treasury

16. The Report on Public Credit

17. "Speculators" vs. "Patriots

18. The Bank of the United States

19. The Report on Manufactures

20. The Effort to Transform the American Economy

21. The Opposition Emerges

22. The Attack Upon Hamilton

23. Hamilton's Quarrel with Jefferson and Burr

Part IV: The Union Against Foreign Aggression

24. The Proclamation of Neutrality

25. The War Clouds Gather

26. The Whisky Rebellion

27. Jay's Treaty

28. The Election of 1796

29. The Mission to France

30. Second in Command of the United States Army

31. The War That Refused to Come to a Boil

32. The Effort to Avert Peace

33. The Election of 1800

Part V: The Union Above All

34. A Prophet of Woe

35. Defender of the Freedom of the Press

36. The Duel with Burr

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Miller, John C. Alexander Hamilton and the Growth of the New Nation

ISBN:

9781351320948

OCLC:

1357500097