Born to an unmarried couple and raised on a remote West Indian island, Alexander Hamilton rose to greatness as a founder of the nation, a soldier and statesman.
The Independence Hall Association presents a biographical sketch of American politician Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) as part of the Brandywine Battlefield resource. The sketch highlights Hamilton's participation in the American Revolutionary...
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 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 ...
Readers will learn the story of the "ten-dollar Founding Father" who inspiredthe smash Broadway musical "Hamilton." Illustrations.
Focuses equally on Hamilton's personal life and his public career as a statesman, patriot, and as one of the chief architects of the American nation.
This accessible book presents Hamilton's life story to young readers through engaging text and includes surprising facts, relevant quotes from Hamilton himself, and striking historical images.
This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt.
Over time, because of the systems Hamilton set up and the ideas he left, his vision won out. Here is the story that epitomizes the American dream—a poor immigrant who made good in America.
He pleaded with a prominent Anti- Federalist congressman from Albany, Abraham Yates Jr., to endorse the Constitution, warning that New York's failure to ratify would “divide the Southern from the Northern states and so divide the Union.