An indispensable resource for all readers, this book summarizes the founding of America alongside the personal and public life of one of America's most influential Founders through a comprehensive investigation of Hamilton's extensive writings. • Offers insight into both the public and private life of Alexander Hamilton, one of America's most significant historical figures and an American icon • Allows students to better grasp the seminal events of the founding of America through the writings of one of the leading Founders • Encourages thoughtful examination of primary source documents on the early years of the American republic
For chief editor, Hamilton plucked one of his most colorful disciples, thirty-fiveyear-old William Coleman, an engaging man with a broad, florid face and a nimble wit. Born to an impecunious Boston family, Coleman had been serving in ...
Read the story of the Founding Father who inspired the smash Broadway musical. Born in the British West Indies and orphaned as a child, Alexander Hamilton made his way to the American Colonies and studied to become a lawyer.
Included in this volume are five of the most important essays from The Federalist Papers, plus personal correspondence and public statements from across Hamilton’s career as a statesman.
The New-York Gazette; and the Weekly Mercury, July 3, 1775. mulligan was a member of many of new york's revolutionary ... 1775; American Archives, 4th Series 3:259–261; ewald Shewkirk's diary, August 24, 1775, in Henry P. Johnston, ...
Editor John P. Kaminski has gathered a remarkable collection of quotations by and about Alexander Hamilton that paint for us a nuanced portrait of a complex man.
Alexander Hamilton, son of Rachel Faucette and James A. Hamilton, was born in 1757 in Charlestown, Nevis, British West Indies. He married Elizabeth Schuyler, daughter of Philip Schuyler, in 1780...
The Papers of Alexander Hamilton
With a new foreword by Robert Watson, presidential scholar and author of Affairs of State, this is an essential account of one of history’s most scandalous love affairs.
In this critical reinterpretation of Hamilton's life, the first Secretary of the Treasury is perceived as an ambitious man whose self-appointed mission was to create a new social order in America based not on status but on money This book ...
Now the editors of TIME present this special edition that celebrates Hamilton and his many accomplishments: as one of the primary architects of the Constitution, an aide and counsel to General George Washington, and the first secretary of ...