Full name: Alexander Hamilton: American

Author: Richard Brookhiser Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780684863313 0684863316

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. Similar books: Fallen Founder by Nancy Isenberg Gentleman Revolutionary by Richard Brookhiser Henry Clay by David S. Heidler Samuel Adams by Ira Stoll John Adams by James Grant Daniel Webster by Robert V. Remini John Paul Jones by Evan Thomas Clarence Darrow by John A. Farrell Washington by James Thomas Flexner The Richest Woman in America by Janet Wallach Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus Passionate Sage by Joseph J. Ellis The Unexpected President by Scott S. Greenberger America's First Dynasty by Richard Brookhiser Thomas Jefferson by Willard Sterne Randall