Alexander Hamilton: A Life â The Founding Father Who Built American Banking and Co-Authored the Federalist Papers

Randall, Willard Sterne

ISBN 10: 0060954663 / ISBN 13: 9780060954666

Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alexander Hamilton: A Life â The Founding Father Who Built American Banking and Co-Authored the Federalist Papers
• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060954663
• ISBN 13: 9780060954666
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

“Hamilton’s turbulent life, the dramatic birth of a nation, all against the richly evoked gritty background of the 18th century--Randall’s book is propelled with the page-turning intensity of an epic novel.” — Ronald Blumer, Peabody Award-winning writer

A new reissue of this important biography of Alexander Hamilton—arguably one of the most brilliant and complex of our nation’s founders.

From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis, to his unhappy fate in 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey, at the hands of his enemy Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton’s short life left a huge legacy.

Orphaned at eleven and apprenticed to a counting house, Hamilton learned the principles of business that helped him, as the first Secretary of the Treasury, create the American banking system and invent the modern corporation. He served in the American Revolution, primarily as aide-de-camp to General Washington, and subsequently developed a successful legal career, co-wrote The Federalist Papers, and built a life in politics. Told in a highly readable style, Alexander Hamilton presents Hamilton’s contributions to America, and what they mean today.

About the Author

Willard Sterne Randall is the prize-winning author of thirteen books, including Ethan Allen: His Life and Times; A Little Revenge: Benjamin Franklin at War with His Son; Thomas Jefferson: A Life; George Washington: A Life; and Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor. A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, he is a professor of history at Champlain College and lives in Burlington, Vermont.