ALEXANDER HAMILTON, American
- ISBN-10
- 1439135452
- ISBN-13
- 9781439135457
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-05
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Richard Brookhiser
Description
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. In these pages, Alexander Hamilton sheds his skewed image as the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler," sex scandal survivor, and notoriously doomed dueling partner of Aaron Burr. Examined up close, throughout his meteoric and ever-fascinating (if tragically brief) life, Hamilton can at last be seen as one of the most crucial of the founders. Here, thanks to Brookhiser's accustomed wit and grace, this quintessential American lives again.
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