Alexander Hamilton, American

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Alexander Hamilton, American brilliantly succeeds in arguing that Hamilton deserves greater credit than he usually gets for his brainpower, idealism, and vision. About the Author Richard Brookhiser is the author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington and The Way of the by: Alexander Hamilton, American book.

Read 86 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Alexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, mos /5. "Alexander Hamilton" is a fascinating book about one of America's least appreciated Founding Fathers.

But Hamilton was the main author of "The Federalist Papers" and he secured America's financial stability and growth in the early years of the Republic/5(K). Michael R. Beschloss The New York Times Book Review A dramatic, compact biography that fairly gallops through Hamilton's picaresque life.

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Like the Washington book, Alexander Hamilton, American may be seen as a Plutarchan attempt to preserve the great lives for future generations in need of enhanced role models and abiding values. Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser, Author Free Press $25 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author.

OTHER BOOKS. Alexander Hamilton was born into obscurity in the British West Indies, but made his reputation during the Revolutionary War and became one. Hamilton's death only increased his infamy; he fell in a duel with then Vice President Aaron Burr, an event that remains one of the most bizarre in American history.

("Imagine Al Gore shooting Donald Regan," Brookhiser writes.) In this slim but rewarding book, Brookhiser traces the entire course of Hamilton's professional and personal life/5(5). Ron Chernow is the prizewinning author of seven books and the recipient of the National Humanities Medal.

His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award; Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the George Washington Book other books include The Warburgs, /5().

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow was published on 26 th AprilEnglish. Penguin Press was the publisher of the Alexander Hamilton book.

This is the New York Times bestseller and it won the prizes like George Washington Book Prize inNational Book Critics Circle award nominee for Author: Manojna. A graphic novel biography of the American legend who inspired the hit Broadway musical Hamilton.

Alexander Hamilton was one of the most influential figures in United States history--he fought in the Revolutionary War, helped develop the Constitution, and as the first Secretary of the Treasury established landmark economic policy that we still use today/5.

Alexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, most important, and most impassioned and inspiring of the founding fathers. At last Hamilton has found a modern biographer who can bring him to full-blooded life; Richard Brookhiser. Brookhiser discussed his book Alexander Hamilton, American, available in paperback from Touchstone, a division of Simon and Schuster, which profiles the life of.

Alexander Hamilton is a biography of American statesman Alexander Hamilton, written by historian and biographer Ron on, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, was an instrumental promoter of the U.S.

Constitution, founder of the nation's financial system, and its first Secretary of the : Ron Chernow. Parents need to know that Alexander Hamilton: The Making of America is a sweeping, informative, yet digestible introduction to the life and times of one of the most influential figures in the story of the early United biography serves as an excellent supplement for middle schoolers learning about American history and government or for anyone who fell in love with Hamilton on 4/5.

The event took place at the duel site of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. Brookhiser discussed his book Alexander Hamilton: American, published by Free Press.

The book examines the life of. 1-Sentence-Summary: Alexander Hamilton will inspire you to boldly use your strengths to change the world as it tells the story of a poor orphan who grew to become one of the most intelligent, ambitious, and influential people in American history.

Read in: 4 minutes Favorite quote from the author. alexander hamilton, american Richard Brookhiser Sheds light on his skewed image as the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler," sex scandal survivor, notoriously doomed dueling partner of Aaron Burr and one of the most crucial of the founders.Birth and Early Life.

Alexander Hamilton’s birth date is disputed, but it is often listed as Janu He was born on the island of Nevis, in the British West Indies, the illegitimate son (his parents were not married to each other) of James Hamilton, a Scotsman, and Rachel Fawcett Lavien, the daughter of a French physician.

Hamilton’s education was brief. Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, a Constitutional Convention delegate, author of the Federalist papers and the first secretary of the U.S.

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