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Alexander Hamilton

Unabridged.

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  • "Alexander Hamilton [podcast]"

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  • "Unabridged."@en
  • "[In this volume, the author] tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. [The author] gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating 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. [He] 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. [He also] 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 [an] account of Hamilton's famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804. [This book] is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America's birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans."
  • "From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation."
  • "Traces the life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States."@en
  • "Traces the life of Alexander Hamilton, an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean who rose to become George Washington's aide-de-camp and the first Treasury Secretary of the United States."
  • "Ron Chernow, whom The New York Times has called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades," brings to life the Founding Father who was the principal designer of the federal government, the patron saint of Wall Street, and the object of ardent idolatry and vehement loathing by his peers."@en
  • "Ron Chernow brings to startling life the man, Alexander Hamilton, who was arguably the most important figure in American history, who never attained the presidency, but who had a far more lasting impact than many who did."
  • "Winner of the National Book Award for his first book, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, Ron Chernow has been called in the New York Times "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades." Chernow also authored national bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Titan, a biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and The Warburgs, winner of the Eccles Prize for the Best Business Book, 1993."

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  • "Biography"@en
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  • "Ron Chernow: Alexander Hamilton"
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  • "Alexander Hamilton"

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