The Young Hamilton: A Biography - Hardcover

Flexner, James Thomas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316285943 ISBN 13: 9780316285940

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1978

Synopsis

A portrait of the American lawyer and political leader which provides insights into his energy, intellectual force, tempestuous public life, and troubled personality

About this title

About the Author:

James Thomas Flexner is a National Book Award Laureate; recipient of a special Pulitzer Prize Citation; winner of the Society of American Historians' Parkman Prize, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "Eminence in Biography."

James Thomas Flexner has won a Special Pulitzer Prize Citation, a National Book Award, and a Christopher's Award for his four-volume biography, Washignton: An Indispensable Man. A foremost man of letters, Flexner has written with equal distinction in the fields of American history, biography and art.

Review:

“Flexner’s great achievement is that he has written a life that even the most rabid Jeffersonian can applaud. Admiring and critical at the same time, Flexner scrutinizes his subject’s early years to arrive at a daring but convincing portrait. . . . Each generation requires its own biographies of history’s major figures, but for the time being it is hard to see how Flexner’s Hamilton could be improved.” (―Newsweek)

“This is an admirable book, thoroughly researched, and nicely written. . . . Highly recommended for general collections.” (―Library Journal)

"Every welcome to a volume which is fully up to the standard of literary elegance, psychological penetration, and historical scholarship that Mr. Flexner’s massive life of George Washington has led everyone to expect.” (―The Economist)

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0316285943
• ISBN 13: 9780316285940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 497