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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"The Federalist Papers -- 85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press -- are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors -- Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay -- were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, the fourth President, and the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in American...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Revolution, and featuring a cast of iconic characters such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the Marquis de Lafayette, The Hamilton Affair tells the sweeping, tumultuous, true love story of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler, from tremulous beginning to bittersweet ending{u2014}his at a dueling ground on the shores of the Hudson River, hers more than half a century later after a brave,...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times best selling authors of America's First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Haunting, moving, and beautifully written, Dray and Kamoie used thousands of letters and original sources to tell Eliza's story as it's never been told before, not just as the wronged wife at the center of a political...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This book explains Hamilton's radical ideas in the context of his revolutionary times and in contrast to other revolutionaries, such as Thomas Jefferson, who emerges as the epitome of rural, slave-owning, anti-statist thinkers. This is a book of scholarship, with hundreds of notes and explanations of early American economics and history, but written in a stylish, accessible, narrative style befitting a leading, longtime journalist"--
19) The price of greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the creation of American oligarchy
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents an introduction to the life and achievements of Alexander Hamilton, including his early years as an orphan in the West Indies, his role in the Revolutionary War and his contributions as America's first secretary of the treasury.
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