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Publisher's description: In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hami...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Publisher's description: In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time "To repudiate his legacy," Chernow writes, "is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world." Chernow here recounts Hamilton's turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington's aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Historians have long told the story of America's birth as the triumph of Jefferson's democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power His is a Hamilton far more human than we've encountered before-from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton's famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804. Chernow's biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America's birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans |
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| adam_text | Contents
Author s
Note xi
prologue: The Oldest Revolutionary War Widow
1
one: The Castaways
7
two: Hurricane
29
three: The Collegian
41
four: The Pen and the Sword
62
five: The Little Lion
83
six: A Frenzy of Valor
107
seven: The Lovesick Colonel
126
eight: Glory
154
nine: Raging Billows
167
ten: A Grave, Silent, Strange Sort of Animal
187
eleven: Ghosts
203
twelve: August and Respectable Assembly
219
thirteen: Publius
243
fourteen: Putting the Machine in Motion
270
fifteen: Villainous Business
291
sixteen: Dr. Pangloss
310
seventeen: The First Town in America
332
eighteen: Of Avarice and Enterprise
344
nineteen: City of the Future
362
twenty: Corrupt Squadrons
389
twenty-one: Exposure
409
twenty-two: Stabbed in the Dark
419
twenty-three: Citizen
Genêt
431
twenty-four: A Disagreeable Trade
448
twenty-five: Seas of Blood
458
twenty-six: The Wicked Insurgents of the West
468
twenty-seven: Sugar Plums and Toys
482
twenty-eight: Spare Cassius
501
twenty-nine: The Man in the Glass Bubble
517
thirty: Flying Too Near the Sun
526
thirty-one: An Instrument of Hell
546
thirty-two: Reign of Witches
569
thirty-three: Works Godly and Ungodly
580
thirty-jour: In an Evil Hour
592
thirty-five: Gusts of Passion
603
thirty-six: In a Very Belligerent Humor
619
thirty-seven: Deadlock
630
thirty-eight: A World Full of Folly
640
thirty-nine: Pamphlet Wars
657
forty: The Price of Truth
665
forty-one: A Despicable Opinion
680
forty-two: Fatal Errand
695
forty-three: The Melting Scene
710
epilogue: Eliza
723
Acknowledgments
733
Notes
739
Bibliography
780
Selected Books, Pamphlets, and Dissertations
780
Selected Articles
786
Index
791
Ron Chernow, whom The New
Tork
Times has called
as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we ve
seen in decades, brings to startling life the man who
was the principal designer of the federal government,
the catalyst for the emergence of the two-party system, the
patron saint of Wall Street, and the object of ardent idol¬
atry as well as vehement loathing by his peers. Alexander
Hamilton was arguably the most important figure in
American history who never attained the presidency, but
he had a far more lasting impact than many who did.
An illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the
Caribbean, Hamilton rose with stunning speed to become
George Washington s aide-de-camp, a battlefield hero,
a member of the Constitutional Convention, the leading
author of The Federalist Papers, and head of the Federal¬
ist party. As the first treasury secretary, he forged
America s tax and budget systems, Customs Service, Coast
Guard, and central bank. With masterful storytelling
skills, Chernow offers the whole sweep of Hamilton s
turbulent life: his exotic, brutal upbringing; his brilliant
military, legal, and financial exploits; his titanic feuds with
Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and Monroe; his shocking
illicit romances; his enlightened abolitionism; and
his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July
1804..
Throughout, Chernow blends Hamilton s public and
private selves to present a fully rounded portrait of this
handsome, witty, controversial genius and his poignant
relations with his wife, Eliza, and their eight children.
Hamilton s countless exploits never cramped his prolific
literary labors. Chernow brings to light nearly fifty previ¬
ously undiscovered essays as he explores Hamilton s fiery
journalism, his youthful poetry, his magisterial state
papers, and his revealing missives to colleagues and
friends. Moreover, he conjures up richly nuanced portraits
of Hamilton s celebrated peers. Here are Washington,
Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Burr as they
have seldom been seen before, with all their shortcomings
as well as their oft-sung triumphs. This engrossing
nar-
rative dispels the stereotype of the founding fathers
as quaint wooden figures and shows that, for all their
greatness, they were passionate, fallible human beings.
Alexander Hamilton figured prominently in almost
every major political episode of late-eighteenth-century
America. He was so pivotal in the nation s early years that
his absorbing saga, rendered in Chernow s vivid prose,
offers a riveting account of America s founding era from
the Revolutionary War to the formation of the first fed¬
eral government and beyond.
A graduate of Yale and Cambridge, Ron
С
HERNO w
won the National Book Award in
1990
for his first book,
The House of Morgan, which the Modern Library cited
as one of the hundred bestnonfiction books of the twen¬
tieth century. His second book, TheWarburgs, won the
Eccles Prize as the best business book of
1993.
His biog¬
raphy of John D. Rockefeller, Titan, was a national
bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award final¬
ist. Both Time magazine and The New
Tork
Times listed
it among the ten best books of
1998.
Chernow lives in
Brooklyn, New York.
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| spelling | Chernow, Ron 1949- Verfasser (DE-588)1108320805 aut Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow New York Penguin Press 2004 XI, 818 S. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Publisher's description: In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time "To repudiate his legacy," Chernow writes, "is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world." Chernow here recounts Hamilton's turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington's aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States. Historians have long told the story of America's birth as the triumph of Jefferson's democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power His is a Hamilton far more human than we've encountered before-from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton's famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804. Chernow's biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America's birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans Hamilton, Alexander <1757-1804> ram Hamilton, Alexander <1757-1804> Hamilton, Alexander 1757-1804 (DE-588)118545302 gnd rswk-swf Hommes politiques - États-Unis - Biographies ram Politik Statesmen United States Biography États-Unis - Politique et gouvernement - 1783-1809 - Biographies ram USA United States Politics and government 1783-1809 (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Hamilton, Alexander 1757-1804 (DE-588)118545302 p DE-604 Digitalisierung UB Regensburg application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=012773955&sequence=000003&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Regensburg application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=012773955&sequence=000004&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext |
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