Leadership Development and Analysis

Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow

Format: Hardcover, 600pp.
ISBN: 9781594200090
Publisher: Penguin Books
Pub. Date: April 2004

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From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.

Ron Chernow, whom the New York Times called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades," now brings to startling life the man who was arguably the most important figure in American history, who never attained the presidency, but who 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 member of the Constitutional Convention, coauthor of The Federalist Papers, leader of the Federalist party, and the country's first Treasury secretary. With masterful storytelling skills, Chernow presents 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 illicit romances; and his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804.

For the first time, Chernow captures the personal life of this handsome, witty, and perennially controversial genius and explores his poignant relations with his wife Eliza, their eight children, and numberless friends. This engrossing narrative will dispel forever the stereotype of the Founding Fathers as wooden figures and show that, for all their greatness, they were fiery, passionate, often flawed human beings.

Alexander Hamilton was one of the seminal figures in our history. His richly dramatic saga, rendered in Chernow's vivid prose, is nothing less than a riveting account of America's founding, from the Revolutionary War to the rise of the first federal government.

About the Author

Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan, and his second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993. His biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Titan, was a national bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

Table of Contents

Author's Note xi

Prologue: The Oldest Revolutionary War Widow 1

The Castaways 7
Hurricane 29
The Collegian 41
The Pen and the Sword 62
The Little Lion 83
A Frenzy of Valor 107
The Lovesick Colonel 126
Glory 154
Raging Billows 167
A Grave, Silent, Strange Sort of Animal 187
Ghosts 203
August and Respectable Assembly 219
Publius 243
Putting the Machine in Motion 270
Villainous Business 291
Dr. Pangloss 310
The First Town in America 332
Of Avarice and Enterprise 344
City of the Future 362
Corrupt Squadrons 389
Exposure 409
Stabbed in the Dark 419
Citizen Genêt 431
A Disagreeable Trade 448
Seas of Blood 458
The Wicked Insurgents of the West 468
Sugar Plums and Toys 482
Spare Cassius 501
The Man in the Glass Bubble 517
Flying Too Near the Sun 526
An Instrument of Hell 546
Reign of Witches 569
Works Godly and Ungodly 580
In an Evil Hour 592
Gusts of Passion 603
In a Very Belligerent Humor 619
Deadlock 630
A World Full of Folly 640
Pamphlet Wars 657
The Price of Truth 665
A Despicable Opinion 680
Fatal Errand 695
The Melting Scene 710

Epilogue: Eliza 723

Acknowledgements 733

Notes 739

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